SOLUTION: An elementary school buys tickets for a field trip to the museum. The number of children going on the field trip is 12 times the number of adults. Tickets for children cost $12 e
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Question 992374: An elementary school buys tickets for a field trip to the museum. The number of children going on the field trip is 12 times the number of adults. Tickets for children cost $12 each and tickets for adults cost $16 each. The total cost of all of the tickets is $4800, how many tickets of each type did the school purchase?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the number of adults. Then 
is the number of children. The cost of the adult tickets is then 
and the cost of the child tickets is 
, hence
Solve for and then calculate
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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