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The school play is selling tickets for their annual fall play. Adult tickets cost $7 each and

children’s tickets cost $4 each. The theatre holds 100 seats and the play is sold out! If $592 were made off of ticket sales, how many of each kind of ticket were sold

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Answer:

64 adult tickets were sold and 36 children tickets were sold

Explanation:

i created two equations. 7A + 4C = 592 and A + C = 100. A stands for adult tickets and C stands for children tickets. in order to find the value of C, the children tickets, i took the second equation, A + C = 100, and subtracted A on both sides to get C = -A + 100. i then plugged the value of c into the first equation i created. i then got 7A + 4(-A+100) = 592. after that, i distributed the 4 into the parentheses and got 7A - 4A + 400 = 592. from there, you solve and get 3A = 192. divide 3 from both sides, and get the value of A = 64. then, you go back to the second equation, A + C = 100, and plug in your value of A to get 64 + C = 100. you can then go on to solve for C and get 36. your final answer is 64 adult tickets and 36 children tickets were sold.

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