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Question 934930: A school is selling tickets for a student play. Tickets cost $1.50 each for children and $2.50 for adults. They sell 60 tickets and total taking are $126. How many children and how many adults buy tickets? Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Assign variables to each type of ticket, for how many is sold. Write an equation to account for revenue (ticket sales in dollars) and write an equation to account for how many tickets sold. You have two linear equations and two unknown variables.