SOLUTION: The capital Theater of Toronto is selling tickets for a show. They have sold a total of 728 tickets. Each adult ticket costs $19.00, and each youth ticket costs $8.00. If they have
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Question 998324: The capital Theater of Toronto is selling tickets for a show. They have sold a total of 728 tickets. Each adult ticket costs $19.00, and each youth ticket costs $8.00. If they have made $10653 how many adult tickets and youth tickets did they sell? Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Call adult and youth tickets, x and y.
The number equation is
x + y = 728
The value equation is
19x + 8y = 10653
Multiply the first equation by 19 and subtract...
19x + 8y = 10653
-(19x + 19y = 13832)
which gives us
-11y = -3179
and
y = 289 youth tickets which gives us
x = 728 - 289 = 439 adult tickets
