SOLUTION: A theatre contains 422 seats and the ticket prices for a recent play were ​$41 for adults and ​$17 for children. If the total proceeds were ​$10,942 for a​

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Question 1109315: A theatre contains 422 seats and the ticket prices for a recent play were ​$41 for adults and ​$17 for children. If the total proceeds were ​$10,942 for a​ sold-out matinee, how many of each type of ticket were​ sold?
Answer by ikleyn(52756) About Me  (Show Source):
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It is a standard ticket problem.

Read the lessons
    - Using systems of equations to solve problems on tickets
    - Three methods for solving standard (typical) problems on tickets
in this site.

Learn from these lessons on how to learn such problems once 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".