SOLUTION: 30% of the tickets sold by a movie theater were children's tickets at $4 ea. The rest of the tickets were sold at the full price of $8.50 ea. The theater collected $252 for the ch
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Question 447238: 30% of the tickets sold by a movie theater were children's tickets at $4 ea. The rest of the tickets were sold at the full price of $8.50 ea. The theater collected $252 for the childrens tickets. How many tickets did they sell in all? Found 3 solutions by mananth, ikleyn, josgarithmetic:Answer by mananth(16949) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let total tickets sold be x
chidren tickets sold = 0.3x
other tickets sold = 0.7x
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children tickets cost $4.00
other tickets = $8.50
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0.3x*4= 252
1.2x=252
x=252/1.2
x= 210 tickets
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
30% of the tickets sold by a movie theater were children's tickets at $4 ea.
The rest of the tickets were sold at the full price of $8.50 ea.
The theater collected $252 for the children's tickets. How many tickets did they sell in all?
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The theater collected $252 for the children's tickets.
So, the number of children tickets was = 63.
Thus, 63 tickets were 30% of all sold tickets.
It means that the total number of tickets sold was =210.
ANSWER. The total numbers of tickets sold was 210.
Solved.
In this problem, the information about the adult tickets price is excessive: it is not used in the solution.
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