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A table showing Tickets Sold, Cost, and Total. The first row shows Child, with the entries, c, 3, and 3 c. The second row shows Adult, with entries, x, 5, 5 x. The last row shows Total, with all three entries blank.

Tickets to a baseball game cost $3 for a child’s ticket and $5 for an adult ticket. At the last game, $521 was collected when 139 people attended the game. Which value could replace x in the table so that a single-variable equation can be written and solved to determine the number of child’s tickets, c, sold?

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Answer: the answer is 139-c

User Nightfirecat
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Answer:

x = 52, c = 87

Explanation:

Set up and then solve this system of equations:

3c + 5x = 521--->3c + 5x = 521

c + x = 139 --->3c + 3x = 417

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2x = 104

x = 52, c = 87

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