SOLUTION: The admission fee at A waterpark is $11 for children and $18 for adults. On a certain day 359 people entered the part and the mission fees collected total $5328. How many children

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Question 1170923: The admission fee at A waterpark is $11 for children and $18 for adults. On a certain day 359 people entered the part and the mission fees collected total $5328. How many children and how many adults were admitted. The number of children admitted was? The number of adults men was?
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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C+A=359 people equation
11C+18A=$5328 money equation
-11C-11A= -3949, multiply by -11 to eliminate C
7A=1379
A=197 adults or $3546. Not sure about adult men, but that is number of adults
C=162 children or $1782