SOLUTION: A movie theater has two ticket prices $8 for adults and $5 for children if the box office took in $4116 from the sale of 600 tickets how many tickets of each kind were sold? now my

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Question 1049059: A movie theater has two ticket prices $8 for adults and $5 for children if the box office took in $4116 from the sale of 600 tickets how many tickets of each kind were sold? now my real question is how do you begin setting up the first equation to solve for the second
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A movie theater has two ticket prices $8 for adults and $5 for children if the box office took in $4116 from the sale of 600 tickets how many tickets of each kind were sold? now my real question is how do you begin setting up the first equation to solve for the second
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a + c = 600 tickets
8a + 5c = 4116 dollars
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Can you handle it from there?
Cheers,
Stan H.
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