SOLUTION: At a college basketball game, students’ tickets cost 12 pesos each, adults’ tickets cost 16 pesos each and children’s tickets cost 7 pesos each. Four times as many adults’ tickets

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Question 584134: At a college basketball game, students’ tickets cost 12 pesos each, adults’ tickets cost 16 pesos each and children’s tickets cost 7 pesos each. Four times as many adults’ tickets as children’s tickets were sold; the total number of children’s tickets and adults’ tickets was half the number of students’ tickets. The total number of tickets sales was 33,043 pesos. How many of each type of ticket was sold?
Answer by richwmiller(17219) About Me  (Show Source):
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12s+16a+7c=33043
a=4c
c+a=s/2
a=692
c=173
s=1730