SOLUTION: A theatre sold 300 tickets to a special benefit performance. The tickets prices were $4 for children and $6 for adults. If three times as many adults attended as children, how many

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Question 985266: A theatre sold 300 tickets to a special benefit performance. The tickets prices were $4 for children and $6 for adults. If three times as many adults attended as children, how many adults attended?
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let  x  be the number of children attended.  Then the number of adult attended is  3x,  according to the condition.

Then you have an equation

x + 3x = 300.

Solve it:

4x = 300,

x = = 75.

Thus  75  children were in attendance and  3*75 = 225 adults.

Info about the ticket prices is not used.  It is non necessary. It is not needed.


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