SOLUTION: Hi, I am having a toguth time with this problem. It says "The admission fee at an amusement park is $15 for children and $40 for adults. On a certain day, 2200 people enter the fai

Question 95441: Hi, I am having a toguth time with this problem. It says "The admission fee at an amusement park is $15 for children and $40 for adults. On a certain day, 2200 people enter the fair and $50,500 is collected. How many children and homw many adults attended?"
If you could help me I would really appreciate it!! = )
Answer by kiljoy(51) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We're going to use c for children and a for adults here.

Now substitute, solve the first problem for a or c, lets do c.

Now plugin our c value into the 2nd problem.

Now, plugin our a value (700) to solve for c.

This means, 1500 children and 700 adults went to the park.
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