SOLUTION: Adult tickets for a play cost $20 and child tickets cost $8. If there were 33 people at a performance and the theater collected $468 from ticket sales, how many adults and how many

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Question 71822: Adult tickets for a play cost $20 and child tickets cost $8. If there were 33 people at a performance and the theater collected $468 from ticket sales, how many adults and how many children attended the play?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let a=adults c=children
Solved by pluggable solver: Linear System solver (using determinant)
Solve:
+system%28+%0D%0A++++20%5Ca+%2B+8%5Cc+=+468%2C%0D%0A++++1%5Ca+%2B+1%5Cc+=+33+%29%0D%0A++

Any system of equations:


has solution

or



(a=17, c=16}