SOLUTION: please help me solve this word problem. Adult tickets for a play cost $20 and child tickets cost $16. If there were 27 people at a performance and the theater collected $464 fr

Question 47632: please help me solve this word problem.
Adult tickets for a play cost $20 and child tickets cost $16. If there were 27 people at a performance and the theater collected $464 from ticket sales, how many adults and how many children attended the play?
Answer by Nate(3500) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
adult tickets: a
child tickets: c

Combine:

Plug:

While eight adult tickets were sold, nineteen childeren's tickers were sold as well.
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