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The Millivanil Cinema sold 150 tickets to a movie. Some of these were

child tickets and the rest were adult tickets. A child ticket costs $7.75 and
an adult ticket cost $10.25. If the cinema sold $1470 worth of tickets, which
system of equations could be used to determine how many adult tickets, a,
and how many child tickets, c, were sold?

The Millivanil Cinema sold 150 tickets to a movie. Some of these were child tickets-example-1
User Adam Hupp
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Answer:

a)a+c=150,10.25a+7.75c=1470

Explanation:

to understand this

you need to know about:

  • system of linear equation

let's solve:

according to the first condition

  • a+c=150

according to the second condition

  • 10.25a+7.75c=1470
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