SOLUTION: Adult tickets for a play cost $20 and child tickets cost $8. If there were 33 people at a performance and the theater collected $468 from ticket sales, how many adults and how many

Question 71822: Adult tickets for a play cost $20 and child tickets cost $8. If there were 33 people at a performance and the theater collected $468 from ticket sales, how many adults and how many children attended the play?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let a=adults c=children

Solved by pluggable solver: Linear System solver (using determinant)

Solve:

Any system of equations:

has solution

(a=17, c=16}

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