SOLUTION: Disney held a breakfast for parents and their children to eat with Mickey And Minnie Mouse (and the rest of the gang too!) Adult tickets cost $17.95 and the children's tickets cost

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Question 1065807: Disney held a breakfast for parents and their children to eat with Mickey And Minnie Mouse (and the rest of the gang too!) Adult tickets cost $17.95 and the children's tickets cost $12.95. Disney made $7355 from ticket sales from a total of 500 people that attended. How many adults and how many children were at the breakfast?
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Let represent the number of adults and represent the number of children, then





Solve for and . Hint: solve the first equation for either of the variables in terms of the other and then use substitution.

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