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Adult tickets to a play cost $22. Tickets for children cost $15. Tickets for a group of 11 people cost a total of $228. Write and solve a system of equations to find out how many children and how many adults were in the group.

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Adult tickets to a play cost $22. Tickets for children cost $15. Tickets for a group of 11 people cost a total of $228. Write and solve a system of equations to find out how many children and how many adults were in the group.

anonymous · Answer

Let A= Number of Adults; C = Number of Children.
You Know there are 11 people, so [number of adults] + [number of children]= 11

anonymous · Answer

So your two equations are..
$$22A+ 15C$$

$$A + C = 11$$

anonymous · Answer

oh whoops the 22a+15C is equal to 228

anonymous · Answer

Okay. Makes sense now. Thanks both of you! :)

anonymous · Answer

Yeah no prob