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Question 615063: Hello , I had this word problem On my final and I'm stumped . Your going to a Matinne movie with children in the day and at night your taking adults . The childrens tickets are 10 dollars a piece and the adult tickets are 12 dollars .You have a total of 280 dollars how many adults and how many children give us the number of people that went ? I'm really confuse as to how to solve this Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, Charles1947:Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The childrens tickets are 10 dollars a piece and the adult tickets are 12 dollars .You have a total of 280 dollars how many adults and how many children give us the number of people that went ?
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The # of adults has to be a multiple of 5.
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-->0A & 28C
5A & 22C
10A & 16C
15A & 10C
20A & 4C
Any of those 5 answers will work.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You are confused because there are multiple answers.
5 Adults and 22 children would satisfy the problem, but so would
10 adults and 16 children or 15 adults and 10 children or 20 adults and 4 children.