Question

The movies charges 16$ for adults and 16$ for children. The revenue total was 672$ determine the number of each tickets sold if the number of children tickets sold was half the number of the adults.

Answer 1

• adults: 28
• children: 14

Explanation:

You want to know the numbers of tickets sold if all tickets cost $16 and half as many children tickets as adult tickets were sold for a total of $672.

Setup

Let 'c' represent the number of children tickets sold. The number of adult tickets sold will be 2c. Then revenue was ...

16(c +2c) = 672

Solution

3c = 42 . . . . . . divide by 16

c = 14 . . . . . . . . divide by 3

2c = 28 . . . . . . find number of adult tickets

There were 14 children tickets, and 28 adult tickets sold.

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