Question 1141692: Last Sunday, we noticed that at our dance show 1,000 were sold. For an adult, the cost of a ticket was $2 and for a child it was $1. When all was said and done, we had a total amount of $1,850. Write the number of adult tickets and children tickets that were sold on Sunday.
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Here is a quick way to get the answer to a problem like this informally, without algebra.
(1) If all 1000 tickets were children's tickets, the total would be $1000.
(2) The actual total was $1850, which is $850 more than $1000.
(3) Each adult ticket costs $1 more than each children's ticket.
(4) Therefore, the number of adult tickets sold was $850/$1 = 850.
ANSWER: 850 adult tickets; 150 children's tickets
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