SOLUTION: 30% of the tickets sold by the movie theater for the friday night show were children's tickets at $4 each. The rest of the tickets were sold at the full price of $8.50. The movie t

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Question 435026: 30% of the tickets sold by the movie theater for the friday night show were children's tickets at $4 each. The rest of the tickets were sold at the full price of $8.50. The movie theater collected $360 just for the children'stickeys. How many tickets did they sell in all?
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30% of the tickets sold by the movie theater for the friday night show were children's tickets at $4 each. The rest of the tickets were sold at the full price of $8.50. The movie theater collected $360 just for the children's tickets. How many tickets did they sell in all?
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Let # of tickets sold be "x":
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# of children's tickets = 0.3x
# of other tickets = 0.7x
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Equation:
$4(0.3x) = 360 dollars
1.2x = 360
x = 300 (total # of tickets sold)
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Stan H.
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