At the movie theatre, child admission is $5.30 and adult admission is $9.70. on wednesday, 156 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1077.60. how many adult tickets were sold that day?

The number of adult tickets are 57.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given,

Total number of tickets = 156

Total money = $1077.60

Solution,

Let the number of adult be x and of child be y .

So, Total number of tickets = Number of adults + Number of child

Now, according to question;

Total money =

On multiplying by 10 on both side, we get;

Now multiplying equation 1 by 53 then subtract it from equation 3, we get;

Since x is the  number of adults,

Number of adults=57

Number of child = y = 156-57=99

Thus the number of adult tickets are 57.

the answer is 13/48

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