Problema Solution
A ticket booth sold 360 tickets and collected $984 in ticket sales. Adult tickets are $3.50 and child tickets are $1.50. How many tickets of each type were sold?
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Totally they earned = $984
from 360 tickets.
suppose x is the number of audlt tickets
and y is the number of child tickets.
x+y = 360
and each child ticket costs =1.5 and adult ticket cost 3.5$.
that means.
3.5*x+1.5y=984
x+y=360
solving both the equations.
y=360-x substituing in the first equation.
3.5*x+1.5*(360-x) = 984
(3.5-1.5)x+540 = 984
2x= 444
x=222
y = 360-222 = 138