SOLUTION: In one day the museum collected $1590 from 321 people. The price of an admission ticket is $6 for an adult and $4 for a child. How many adults and how many children bought tickets

Question 1199660: In one day the museum collected $1590 from 321 people. The price of an admission ticket is $6 for an adult and $4 for a child. How many adults and how many children bought tickets that day to the museum? (Hint: adults and children add up to 321 total tickets so if you know one you can subtract it from 321 to find the other).
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x children
321-x adults
Accounting for revenue ticket sales, .
Simplify and solve for x.

-----compute this, and evaluate 321-x.

x=168
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