Homework Help: math

Posted by kavon on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 10:40pm.

Adult tickets for a play cost $15 and child tickets cost $6. If there were 33 people at a performance and the theater collected $360 from ticket sales, how many children attended the play?
14 children
15 children
16 children
18 children

math - Reiny, Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 11:08pm
let the number of kids at the show be x
then number of adults is 33-x

6x + 15(33-x) = 360

etc

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