SOLUTION: At the movie theatre, child admission is $ 5.10 and adult admission is $ 9.50 . On Tuesday, four times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sal

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Question 1101650: At the movie theatre, child admission is
$
5.10
and adult admission is
$
9.50
. On Tuesday, four times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of
$
1293.00
. How many child tickets were sold that day?

Answer by greenestamps(13200) About Me  (Show Source):
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To solve this problem, we can assume (even though it was almost certainly not true!) that each group of movie goers consisted of 4 adults and 1 child.

The cost of each group would be 4%2A9.50+%2B+5.10+=+38.00+%2B+5.10+=+43.10

The number of groups required to get a total ticket sales amount of 1293.00 is
1293%2F43.10+=+30

Since there were 30 groups, there were 120 adults and 30 children.