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A group consisting of 10 children an adult went to a movie theater children tickets cost 5 each and adults tickets cost 8 each and the total cost for 10 people was 62.how much children were in the group

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6 children

Explanation:

If all of the group were adults, the total cost of tickets would be 8×$10 = $80. The actual cost was $80 -62 = $18 less than that. Since each children's ticket saves $3 off the cost of an adult ticket, there were $18/$3 = 6 children's tickets.

There were 6 children in the group.

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If you want an equation, you can let c represent the number of children. Then the cost of tickets is ...

8(10 -c) +5c = 62 . . . . 10-c is the number of adults

-3c = -18 . . . . . . . subtract 80

c = -18/-3 = 6 . . . divide by 3

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