At the movie theatre, child admission is $5.10 and adult admission is $9.00 . On Thursday, four times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $1397.40 . How many child tickets were sold that day?

Respuesta :

a = adult tickets
c = child tickets
x number of c
4(9.00)x + (5.1)x = 1397.4
36x + 5.1x = 41.1x
41.1x = 1397.4
x = 34 child tickets sold


X is 34 child tickets sold.