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An event sold $608 worth of tickets Adult tickets cost $11 and children's tickets $6. If 68 tickets were sold how many were adult tickets and how many were children's tickets?

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Answer:

  • 40 adult tickets
  • 28 children's tickets

Explanation:

Let "a" represent the number of adult tickets sold. (We like to let the variable represent the higher-value item.)

Total sales was then ...

11a +6(68-a) = 608

5a + 408 = 608 . . . . . eliminate parentheses

5a = 200 . . . . . . . . . . .subtract 408

a = 40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . divide by 5

40 adult tickets were sold, and 28 children's tickets were sold.

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