SOLUTION: An elementary school buys tickets for a field trip to the museum. The number of children going on the field trip is 12 times the number of adults. Tickets for children cost $12 e

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Question 992374: An elementary school buys tickets for a field trip to the museum. The number of children going on the field trip is 12 times the number of adults. Tickets for children cost $12 each and tickets for adults cost $16 each. The total cost of all of the tickets is $4800, how many tickets of each type did the school purchase?
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Let represent the number of adults. Then is the number of children. The cost of the adult tickets is then and the cost of the child tickets is , hence



Solve for and then calculate

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