SOLUTION: There were 360 people at a play. The admission price was $3 for adults and $1 for children. The admission receipts totaled $740. How many adults and how many children attended?
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Question 221194: There were 360 people at a play. The admission price was $3 for adults and $1 for children. The admission receipts totaled $740. How many adults and how many children attended? Answer by drj(1380) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There were 360 people at a play. The admission price was $3 for adults and $1 for children. The admission receipts totaled $740. How many adults and how many children attended?
Step 1. Let x be the number of adult tickets.
Step 2. Let 3x be the dollar value of adult tickets.
Step 3. Let 360-x be the number of children tickets
Step 4. Let 360-x be the dollar value of children tickets since they are $1 each.
Step 5. Then 3x+360-x=740 since the admission receipts totaled $740.
Step 6 Simplifying yields the following steps
Subtract 360 from both sides of the equation
Divide 2 to both sides of the equation
Check dollar value......a true statement.
Step 7. ANSWER: There are 190 adult tickets and 170 children tickets sold.
I hope the above steps were helpful.
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