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At the movie theatre, child admission is $5.20 and adult admission is $8.50. On Sunday, four times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $1332.80. How many child tickets were sold that day?

At the movie theatre child admission is 520 and adult admission is 850 On Sunday four times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold for a total sales o class=

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morgaine816
x= # adult tickets  y=# child tickets

4y=x
5.20y+8.50x=1332.80
Substitute
5.20y+8.50(4y)=1332.80
Solve for y
5.20y+34y=1332.80
39.2y=1332.8
y=34

Plug y into original equation
4(34)=x
136=x

34 children's tickets and 136 adult tickets were sold

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