SOLUTION: Six hundred people attended the premiere of a motion picture. Adult tickets cost $12, and children were admitted for $9. If box office receipts totaled $6720, how many children att

Question 1145324: Six hundred people attended the premiere of a motion picture. Adult tickets cost $12, and children were admitted for $9. If box office receipts totaled $6720, how many children attended the premiere?

Answer by ikleyn(52776) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let "C" be the number of children.


Then the total revenue equation is


    12*(600-C) + 9C = 6720  dollars.


Express "C"  and calculate


    C =  = 160.    ANSWER


CHECK.  9*160 + (600-160)*12 = 6720 dollars.   ! Correct !

Solved.

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