document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1175370>Question 1175370</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A movie theater has a seating capacity of 361. The theater charges $5.00 for children, $7.00 for students, and $12.00 of adults. There are half as many adults as there are children. If the total ticket sales was $ 2614, How many children, students, and adults attended? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The correct response to this problem is that there is not enough information to solve the problem.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "The capacity of the theater is, as one of the tutors states, irrelevant; what matters is the total number of tickets sold.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Since the problem only gives the capacity of the theater and not the total number of tickets sold, the problem can't be solved.  More precisely, there are probably many different combinations of tickets sold which will give a total ticket sales of $2614 with 361 OR FEWER total tickets sold.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Both responses you have received previously assumed that all the tickets were sold, so that the number of tickets sold was equal to the capacity of the theater.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "But assuming information that is not given in the statement of a problem is BAD mathematics....<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Bottom line: The statement of the problem is deficient.<br><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Dear imbecile tutor @MathTherapy....<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "I might be older than you, but I at least have some intelligence.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO STOP MAKING ABSURD PRONOUNCEMENTS THAT OTHER TUTORS' CORRECT AND ACCURATE RESPONSES ARE WRONG AND NEED TO BE IGNORED?<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "The statement of this problem does NOT NOT NOT say that tickets for all the seats were sold.  There ARE other combinations of tickets sold that would bring in the same total amount of money.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "By posting a response that says my accurate response needs to be ignored, you are demonstrating your ignorance and your pitiful arrogance.<br>\r<BR>\n" );
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