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document.write( "19.	Adult tickets for a play cost $15 and child tickets cost $12.  If there were 26 people at a performance and the theater collected $336 from ticket sales, how many adults and how many children attended the play?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let number of adult tickets be \"x\" ;Value is 15x dollars<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Number of child tickets is \"26-x\"; Value is 12(26-x)=312-12x dollars<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "value + value = 336<BR>\n" );
document.write( "15x+312-12x=336<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2x=24<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x=12 (number of adult tickets)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "26-x=26-12=14 (number of child tickets)<BR>\n" );
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