SOLUTION: A group of 64 people attend a ball game. There were 3 times as many childre as there were adults in the group. Write a system of equations that you could use to set up this problem
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Question 267237: A group of 64 people attend a ball game. There were 3 times as many childre as there were adults in the group. Write a system of equations that you could use to set up this problem where a is the number of adults and c is the number of children in the group.
Solve the system of equations for c, the number of children in the group.
Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(i)
(ii)
by substitution, we get
(iii)
we get
(iv)
so
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