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At the city museum, child admission is $5.80 and adult admission is $9.00 . On Wednesday, 149 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1056.20 . How many adult tickets were sold that day?
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At the city museum, child admission is

$5.80
and adult admission is
$9.00
. On Wednesday,
149
tickets were sold for a total sales of
$1056.20
. How many adult tickets were sold that day?

User Lava Sangeetham
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We have a system of equations here:

Let 'a' = adult tickets and 'c' = children's tickets

5.80c + 9.00a = 1056.20

We also know that the total number of tickets (adults and children) was 149:

a + c = 149

We need only solve the system.
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