SOLUTION: Solve the problem: Adult tickets for a play cost $11 and child tickets cost $10. If there were 23 people at a performance and the theater collected $246 from ticket sales, how

Question 70105: Solve the problem:
Adult tickets for a play cost $11 and child tickets cost $10. If there were 23 people at a performance and the theater collected $246 from ticket sales, how many children attended the play?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Adult tickets for a play cost $11 and child tickets cost $10. If there were 23 people at a performance and the theater collected $246 from ticket sales, how many children attended the play?
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Let number of adult tickets be "x"; value of these is 11x dollars
Number of child tickets is "23-x"; value of these is 10(23-x)=230=10x dollars
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EQUATION:
11x+230-10x=246
x=16 (number of adult tickets)
23-16=7 (number of child tickets)
Cheers,
Stan H.
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