document.write( "Question 1145982: Stacey is selling tickets to the school play. The tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for children. She sells twice as many adult tickets as children's tickets and brings in a total of $391. How many of each kind of ticket did she sell?\r
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document.write( "Let x be the number of children's tickets; then the number of adult tickets is 2x.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The revenue equation is then\r\n" );
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document.write( "    5x + 6*(2x) = 391.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Simplify and solve\r\n" );
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document.write( "    5x + 12x   = 391\r\n" );
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document.write( "    17x        = 391\r\n" );
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document.write( "      x        = 391/17 = 23.\r\n" );
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document.write( "ANSWER.  23 children's tickets and 2*23 = 46 adult tickets.\r\n" );
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document.write( "CHECK.   5*23 + 6*46 = 391 dollars.   ! Correct !\r\n" );
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