SOLUTION: Help pls: Two adults and their four children go to the movies. Altogether the tickets cost $41. One child's ticket cost $4 less than one adults ticket. Form at least one equation

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Two adults and their four children go to the movies. Altogether the tickets cost $41. One child's ticket cost $4 less than one adults ticket. Form at least one equation and use it to find the cost of one child's ticket.

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ANS : if we take the cost of the child ticket = x
thats why the adult ticket is x+4
so there is two adult is 2(x+4) and
there is 4 children so its 4x

so the equation is 2(x+4)+4x = 41

if we solve this equation x=29/2
x= 14.5

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Help pls:
Two adults and their four children go to the movies. Altogether the tickets cost $41. One child's ticket cost $4 less than one adults ticket. Form at least one equation and use it to find the cost of one child's ticket.
Cost of 1 child's ticket:  

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