SOLUTION: At the movie theatre, child admission is $ 5.10 and adult admission is $ 9.50 . On Tuesday, four times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sal

Question 1101650: At the movie theatre, child admission is
$
5.10
and adult admission is
$
9.50
. On Tuesday, four times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of
$
1293.00
. How many child tickets were sold that day?
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

To solve this problem, we can assume (even though it was almost certainly not true!) that each group of movie goers consisted of 4 adults and 1 child.

The cost of each group would be

The number of groups required to get a total ticket sales amount of 1293.00 is

Since there were 30 groups, there were 120 adults and 30 children.
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