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PLEASE HELP MEE!!!! ASAP I BEG

Write a system of equations for this word problem. DO NOT SOLVE IT

Tickets to the movie theater are $5.50 for children
and $7.00 for adults. On Saturday, 1,250 people
attended the movie theater (adults and children)
The movie theater received $7,979 in ticket sales.
How many children and how many adults
attended the theater on Saturday?

Equation
TOPIC—
# of tickets—
$ earned—

PLEASE HELP MEE!!!! ASAP I BEG Write a system of equations for this word problem. DO-example-1
User Rhytonix
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Answer:

a + c = 1250

$7.00a + $5.50c = $7979

Explanation:

Making the system of equations for the number of tickets involved how many attended and who attended

It's showing 1250 attended and children and adults showed up. Let's a = adults and c = children

a + c = 1250 <--- that's saying adults + children equal 1250

For $ earned, it involves how much each ticket was and the total cost

Looks like we have prices for a and c and the total cost which was 7979. Since adults were 7.00, we'll call that 7.00a. And for children it was 5.50, we'll call that 5.50c

Putting it together 7.00a + 5.50c = 7979 because all the $7.00 tickets plus all the $5.50 tickets cost $7979

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