Problema Solution

A group of people paid $720 dollars for admission tickets. The price of a ticket for an adult was 15$ and for the children was 8$.There were 25 more adults than children.How many children were there?

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We assume that each person, child or adult, bought 1 ticket.

Let

x = the number of children

x + 25 = the number of adults

8x + 15(x + 25) = 720

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x = 15 children

There were 15 children.