SOLUTION: Adult movie tickets cost 6 dollars. Child tickets cost 3 dollars. If 700 people go to a movie and the total ticket sales are 3300 dollars how many children and how many adults were

Question 258680: Adult movie tickets cost 6 dollars. Child tickets cost 3 dollars. If 700 people go to a movie and the total ticket sales are 3300 dollars how many children and how many adults were there?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let A be the adult tickets, C the children tickets.
1.
2.
From eq. 1,

Substitute in eq. 2,

Then from eq. 1,

400 adult tickets, 300 children tickets.
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