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document.write( ": <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Adult tickets for a play cost $17 and child tickets cost $8.  If there were 24 people at a performance and the theater collected $363 from ticket sales, how many children attended the play? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Let number of adult tickets be \"x\"<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Value of those tickets is 17x dollars<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Number of child tickets is \"24-x\"<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Value of those tickets is 8(24-x)=192-8x dollars<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "value + value= 363 dollars<BR>\n" );
document.write( "17x + 192-8x=363<BR>\n" );
document.write( "9x=171<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x=19 (number of adult tickets)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "24-x=5 (number of child tickets)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H. </SPAN>\n" );
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