SOLUTION: Adult tickets for a play cost $17 and child tickets cost $8. If there were 24 people at a performance and the theater collected $363 from ticket sales, how many children attended
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Question 48841: Adult tickets for a play cost $17 and child tickets cost $8. If there were 24 people at a performance and the theater collected $363 from ticket sales, how many children attended the play?
I come up with 6 children but I do not think it is correct....please help Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! C+A=24 & 17A+8C=363 OR C=24-A SUBSTITUTING 24-A FOR C IN THE SECOND EQUATION WE GET 17A+8(24-A)=363 OR 17A+192-8A=363 OR 9A=171 A=19 ADULT TICKETS &
C=24-19 OR C=5 CHILDREN'S TICKETS.
17*19+5*8=363 OR 323+40=363 OR 363=363
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