SOLUTION: For a Saturday matinee, adult tickets cost $9.00 and kids under 12 pay only $5.00. If 45 tickets are sold for a total of $269.00 How many of the tickets were adult tickets and how

Question 1162686: For a Saturday matinee, adult tickets cost $9.00 and kids under 12 pay only $5.00. If 45 tickets are sold for a total of $269.00 How many of the tickets were adult tickets and how many were sold to kids under 12?
Answer by ikleyn(52756) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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9x + 5*(45-x) = 269  dollars,  where x is the number of adult tickets.


From the equation


    x =  = 11.


ANSWER.  11 adult tickets and the rest 45-11 = 34 child tickets.


CHECK.   11*9 + 34*5 = 269 dollars.   ! Precisely correct !

Solved.

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