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Mega Movies hosted a film premiere on Friday night. They charged $8 for adults and $4 for children. One hundred seventy-three adults and children attended, and $1,276 was made in ticket sales. How many children and how many adults went to the film premiere?
 Dec 3, 2013
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Mega Movies hosted a film premiere on Friday night. They charged $8 for adults and $4 for children. One hundred seventy-three adults and children attended, and $1,276 was made in ticket sales. How many children and how many adults went to the film premiere?

Let a be the number of adults and c be the number of children

a + c = 173 => a =173 - c

8a + 4c = 1276

now substitute 173-c for a in the second equation and solve it.

can you finish it yourself?
 Dec 3, 2013

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