SOLUTION: At a charity​ fundraiser, adult tickets were sold for ​$12 each and​ children's tickets were sold for $5 each. Write an algebraic expression for the total amount

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Question 1045692: At a charity​ fundraiser, adult tickets were sold for ​$12 each and​ children's tickets were sold for $5 each. Write an algebraic expression for the total amount of money raised from the sale of tickets.How much money was raised if the fundraiser sold 254 adult tickets and 388 ​children's tickets?
Let a=the number of adult tickets and let c=the number of child tickets. Then, an algebraic expression for the total money raised from the sale of tickets is ?
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12A+5C=Total amount raised, if A is adult ticket number and C the children ticket number. ANSWER
12*254+5*388=$3048+$1940=$4988