SOLUTION: Adult tickets for a play cost $17 and child tickets cost $2. If there were 22 people at a performance and the theater collected $179 from ticket sales, how many adults and how man
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Question 121438: Adult tickets for a play cost $17 and child tickets cost $2. If there were 22 people at a performance and the theater collected $179 from ticket sales, how many adults and how many children attended the play? Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Adult tickets for a play cost $17 and child tickets cost $2. If there were 22 people at a performance and the theater collected $179 from ticket sales, how many adults and how many children attended the play?
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Let # of adult tickets be "x" ; Value of these is 17x dollars.
# of child tickets is "22-x" ; Value of these is 2(22-x) = 44-2x dollars
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EQUATION:
value + value = 179 dollars
17x + 44-2x = 179
15x = 135
x = 9 (# of adult tickets sold)
22-x = 13 (# of child tickets sold)
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Stan H.
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