SOLUTION: write an equation and solve (if you can put a chart please make it) Tickets to the cinema cost $5 for children and $8 for adults. If the auditorium, which holds 350 people, wa

Question 994621: write an equation and solve (if you can put a chart please make it)

Tickets to the cinema cost $5 for children and $8 for adults. If the auditorium, which holds 350 people, was sold out for all three performances and the net income fro ticket sales was $7455, how many children and how many adults watched the cinema?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, child
y, adult

Elimination Method usually works well in these academic problems. Multiply the ticket count equation by 5, and use the result to eliminate x to first solve for y.
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