SOLUTION: The admission fee at an amusement park is $20 for children and $35 for adults. On a certain day, 320 people entered the park, and the admission fees collected totaled $8500. How ma

Question 1136131: The admission fee at an amusement park is $20 for children and $35 for adults. On a certain day, 320 people entered the park, and the admission fees collected totaled $8500. How many children and how many adults were admitted?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39615)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a adults
c children

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Answer by ikleyn(52772)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It is a standard and typical ticket problem.

For ticket problems, 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 and 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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