At the city museum, child admission is $5.90 and adult admission is $9.20. on thursday, three times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $1273.00. how many child tickets were sold that day?

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Omar Ellison

Mathematics

21 August, 18:37

At the city museum, child admission is $5.90 and adult admission is $9.20. on thursday, three times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $1273.00. how many child tickets were sold that day?

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Dean · Answer 1

Let's have x be the number of children tickets and 2x will be the adults. Now we can set up the following equation:

5.4x+8.9 (2x) = 626.4

Expand this out:

5.4x+17.8x=626.4

Combine like terms:

23.2x=626.4

Divide both sides by 23.2 to get x=27