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A theatre sold a total of 98 adult and senior tickets. Adult tickets sold for 12$ each and senior tickets sold for 8$ each bringing in a total of 1,072$. How many adult tickets were sold

 Feb 4, 2020
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Hi there...
 
Problem...:
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Tickets sold in total = "98"
"Adult-Tickets" = "$12,-" each.
"Senior-Tickets" = "$8,-" each.
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"How many "Adult-Tickets" were sold?"
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As a point of refference, here are the extremes...
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((88 "Adult-Tickets")+(2 "Senior-Tickets"))=$1072,-
((131 "Senior-Tickets")+(2 "Adult-Tickets"))=$1072,-
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I hope that helped a bit?



Kind regards
BizzyX
 
 
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 Feb 4, 2020
edited by BizzyX  Feb 5, 2020
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Instead of being all wordy:

 

x = adult tx      revenue from adult tx =    12 x

98-x = senior tx    revenue from senior tx = 8 (98-x)     summed together these equal 1072

 

12x     +    8 (98-x)  =  1072       solve for x = adult tix     then   98-x = senior tx

 Feb 4, 2020

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