SOLUTION: For a Saturday matinee, adult tickets cost $9.00 and kids under 12 pay only $5.00. If 45 tickets are sold for a total of $269.00 How many of the tickets were adult tickets and how
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Question 1162686: For a Saturday matinee, adult tickets cost $9.00 and kids under 12 pay only $5.00. If 45 tickets are sold for a total of $269.00 How many of the tickets were adult tickets and how many were sold to kids under 12? Answer by ikleyn(52754) (Show Source):
9x + 5*(45-x) = 269 dollars, where x is the number of adult tickets.
From the equation
x = = 11.
ANSWER. 11 adult tickets and the rest 45-11 = 34 child tickets.
CHECK. 11*9 + 34*5 = 269 dollars. ! Precisely correct !
