SOLUTION: A school sold 200 tickets to a play. Ticket prices were $8 per adult and $5 per child. If the total sales for the tickets came to $1414, how many children 's tickets were sold?
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Question 625656: A school sold 200 tickets to a play. Ticket prices were $8 per adult and $5 per child. If the total sales for the tickets came to $1414, how many children 's tickets were sold? Answer by reynard2007(52) (Show Source):
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Let x be the number of tickets sold to adults. If there are 200 tickets sold in total, the number of tickers sold to children is 200-x. To solve this, we setup the equation and it should look like this:
138 tickets were sold to adults and 62 to children.
