SOLUTION: At a local fair, the admission fee is $8.00 for an adult and $4.50 for youth. One saturday, 209 admissions were perchased with total receipts of $1304.50. How many adult ? (show wo

Question 630985: At a local fair, the admission fee is $8.00 for an adult and $4.50 for youth. One saturday, 209 admissions were perchased with total receipts of $1304.50. How many adult ? (show work)
Answer by reviewermath(1029) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x = number of adult tickets sold
y = number of tickets for youth sold
System of Equation:
8x + 4.5y = 1304.5
x + y = 209

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Solve:

Any system of equations:

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(x=104, y=105}

adult tickets were sold.
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