SOLUTION: Adult tickets for a play cost $14 and child tickets cost $3.
If there were 26 people at a performance and the theater collected $199
from ticket sales, how many adults and how
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-> SOLUTION: Adult tickets for a play cost $14 and child tickets cost $3.
If there were 26 people at a performance and the theater collected $199
from ticket sales, how many adults and how
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Question 387944: Adult tickets for a play cost $14 and child tickets cost $3.
If there were 26 people at a performance and the theater collected $199
from ticket sales, how many adults and how many children attended the play? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = number of adult tickets sold
Let = number of child tickets sold
given:
(1)
(2)
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Multiply both sides of (1) by
and subtract (1) from (2)
(2)
(1)
and, since
(1)
11 adults and 15 children attended
