Question

A local movie theater charges $12 for an adult ticket and $10 for a child's ticket. a group of eight people spent a total of $86 on tickets to a movie. how many adults and how many children were in the group? write a system of linear equations based on the description. use x to represent the number of adults and y to represent the number of children.

Answer 1

3 adults and 5 kids. 

You can get this by setting up the following system of equations.

x + y = 8 (number of people)
10x + 12y = 86 (cost)