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A local theater is showing an animated movie. They charge $5 per ticket for a child and $12 per ticket for an adult. They sell a total of 342 tickets and make a total of $2550. We want a try to find out how many of each type of ticket they sold. Let c represent the number of children's tickets sold and a represent the number of adult tickets sold

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MissPhiladelphia

This can be solve by generating two equation


First equation for the number of ticket sold

a + c = 342


2nd equation for the total amount of money



12a + 5c = 2550



Solving the two equations simultaneously



a = 120 adult tickets

c = 222 children tickets

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