SOLUTION: 450 tickets were sold at an opera in Calgary. Tickets for adults were sold for $9.50 each and tickets for children were sold for $5.50 each. If a total of $3,675 was collected from

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Question 1135655: 450 tickets were sold at an opera in Calgary. Tickets for adults were sold for $9.50 each and tickets for children were sold for $5.50 each. If a total of $3,675 was collected from ticket sales, how many tickets of each kind were sold?
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Enough examples like this were already done today.

Answer by ikleyn(52777) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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For ticket problems,  read the lessons
    - Using systems of equations to solve problems on tickets
    - Three methods for solving standard (typical) problems on tickets
in this site.

From these lessons,  learn on how to solve such problems once and for all.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Systems of two linear equations in two unknowns".