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9.7 Exercise 99

Avg difficulty 2.5

Solve each ticket or stamp word problem.

A church luncheon made $842.\$\text{842} . Adult tickets cost $10\$\text{10} each and children’s tickets cost $6\$\text{6} each. The number of children was 1212 more than twice the number of adults. How many of each ticket were sold?

OpenStax Prealgebra 2e, 9.7 Solve a Formula for a Specific Variable, exercise 99

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