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adult tickets cost $10 and children's tickets to a show cost $5. if the number of children's tickets was twice the number of adult tickets, how many of each type of tickets was sold if $800 was collcted in tickets sales? ( make sure you write a legend stating what your variable represents)

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x=amount of children tickes sold
y=amount of adult tickets sold

2 times of children as adult
x=2y

total cost is 800
5x+10y=800
divide both sides by 5
x+2y=160
x=2y
2y+2y=160
4y=160
divie by 4
y=40

x=2y
x=2(40)
x=80


80 children tickets
40 adult tickets
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