SOLUTION: 30% of the tickets sold by a 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 the
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Question 77024: 30% of the tickets sold by a 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 $252 for the chlidren's tickets.
How many tickets did they sell in all?
explain your answer Answer by checkley75(3666) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .3X*4=252
1.2X=252
X=252/1.2
X=210 CHILDREN'S TICKETS SOLD
210=.3x
X=210/.3
X=700 ADULT TICKETS SOLD
210+700=910 TOTAL NUMBER OF TICKETS SOLD.
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