SOLUTION: Tickets for a play cost $3 for children and $8 for adults. The theater sold 511 seats for $3058, how many of each type of ticket did they sell?

Question 268791: Tickets for a play cost $3 for children and $8 for adults. The theater sold 511 seats for $3058, how many of each type of ticket did they sell?
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Tickets for a play cost $3 for children and $8 for adults. The theater sold 511 seats for $3058, how many of each type of ticket did they sell?
let number of children's ticket sold be x
Adult ticket will be 511=x
Amount from selling children'e ticket will be 3x
Amount from selling adult's ticket will be 8*(511-x)
Their sum wil be the total sales

3x+8(511-x)= 3058
3x+4088-8x=3058
-5x=3058-4088
-5x=-1030
x=1030/-5
x=206
511-206= 305

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