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an amusement park sells child and adult tickets at a ratio of 8:1. on saturday they sold 147 more child tickets than adult tickets. how many tickets did the amusment park sell on saturday?

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This relationship will remain constant. Given that, when the difference is 147 7 times the number of adult tickets sold will be 147. Therefore, the number of adult tickets sold will be 21 and the number of children tickets sold will be 168.
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