SOLUTION: If 129 people attend a concert and tickets for adults cost $3.5 while tickets for children cost $3.25 and total receipts for the concert was $439, how many of each went to the conc

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Question 1129648: If 129 people attend a concert and tickets for adults cost $3.5 while tickets for children cost $3.25 and total receipts for the concert was $439, how many of each went to the concert?
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Kids-

Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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3.50*x + 3.25*(129-x) = 439.


Solve for x, which is the number of adults.


Then evaluate  129-x for the number of children.


ANSWER.  79 adults and 50 children.

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It is a standard ticket problem.

Read the lessons
    - Using systems of equations to solve problems on tickets
    - Three methods for solving standard (typical) problems on tickets
in this site.

From these lessons,  learn on how to solve such problems once for all.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Systems of two linear equations in two unknowns".


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