SOLUTION: Hi A ticket for an adult costs $40 . A ticket for a child costs $28. The total collection from the sale is $23004. If the sale of a child's ticket was $24 how many adult and chil

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Question 1206796: Hi
A ticket for an adult costs $40 . A ticket for a child costs $28. The total collection from the sale is $23004. If the sale of a child's ticket was $24 how many adult and children tickets were sold.

Found 5 solutions by mananth, greenestamps, Edwin McCravy, josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by mananth(16946)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A ticket for an adult costs $40 . A ticket for a child costs $28. The total collection from the sale is $23004. If the sale of a child's ticket was $24 how many adult and children tickets were sold.
Given
A ticket for an adult costs $40 .
A ticket for a child costs $28.
The total collection from the sale is $23004.
If the sale of a child's ticket was $24 (does not make sense to me)
Answer by greenestamps(13215)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


If you are showing the problem in your own words, then look at what you have written and rewrite it so that it makes sense.

If you are showing the problem exactly as it was given to you, then we can't help you.

The way the problem is presented, we don't know whether the cost of each child's ticket is $28 or $24. And regardless of which it is, there is not enough information to find a single solution.

Fix the statement of the problem and re-post....
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20065)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'll make up a problem similar to yours which can be solved:

A ticket for an adult costs $40 . A ticket for a child costs $28. The total
collection from the sale is $23004. If the price of a child's ticket had cost
only $24, the total collection would have been $20952.  how many adult and
children tickets were sold.

Let A = the number of adult tickets were sold
Let C = the number of adult tickets were sold

40A + 28C = 23004
40A + 24C = 20952

Subtracting the two equations gives

       4C = 2052
        C = 513

Substituting in the second equation

40A + 24(513) = 20952
  40A + 12312 = 20952
          40A = 8640
            A = 216

216 adult tickets were sold.  513 child tickets were sold.

Edwin
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Descriptions not the same.

Part 1
adults $40
child $28
revenue $23004
No indication how many tickets, how many either child or adult

Part 2
adults $40
child $24
revenue $23004
No indication how many tickets, adults, children

Description or descriptions are incomplete.
Answer by ikleyn(52909)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Soup of words. Not edible.

Avoid posting nonsense to this forum.



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