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document.write( "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? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Let number of adult tickets be \"x\"; value of these is 11x dollars<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Number of child tickets is \"23-x\"; value of these is 10(23-x)=230=10x dollars<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "11x+230-10x=246<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x=16 (number of adult tickets)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "23-16=7 (number of child tickets)<BR>\n" );
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