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One night a theater sold 548 movie tickets an adult's tickets cost 6.50 and a child's ticket cost 3.50

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For the answer to the question above, let's say there were x child tickets and y adults tickets.

The total amount sold is: x + y = 548

The total cost of child's tickets: 3.50 * x
The total cost of adults tickets: 6.50* y

Now the cost of ALL tickets sold is 2881: 3.5*x + 6.5*y = 2881


These are equations you want to solve:
x + y = 548
3.5*x + 6.5*y = 2881
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