SOLUTION: A school sold 200 tickets to a play. Ticket prices were $8 per adult and $5 per child. If the total sales for the tickets came to $1414, how many children were sold?
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Question 750199: A school sold 200 tickets to a play. Ticket prices were $8 per adult and $5 per child. If the total sales for the tickets came to $1414, how many children were sold?
Answer by Kg2003(10) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Set up a system of equations calling adult tix x and children tix y.
X+y=200
8x+5y=1414
Solve for y anyway, you should get 62
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