document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=388052>Question 388052</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Movie tickets at a local theater cost $6 for adults an $2 for children.  If 175 tickets were sold, with cash receipts of $750, how many children's tickets were sold?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> represent the number of adult tickets sold.  Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large y\"> represent the number of child tickets sold.  Since adult tickets cost $6, the value of all of the adult tickets sold must be <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large 6x\">.  Likewise, the value of all of the child tickets has to be <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large 2y\">.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The sum of these two values has to be the total cash receipts (unless they sold some space alien tickets we don't know about), so we can write:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 6x\ +\ 2y\ =\ 750\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We also know that there were 175 tickets sold, and again, since there were only two kinds of tickets, we can say:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x\ +\ y\ =\ 175\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solve the system of equations.  The value of <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large y\"> is the answer.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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