At the movie theatre, child admission is $5.10 and adult admission is $9.70. on thursday, 128 tickets were sold for a total sales of $896.60. how many adult tickets were sold that day?

53

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x be the number of children tickets sold and y be the number of adult tickets sold. Then

x+y=128.

The cost of x children tickets is $5.10x and the cost of y adult tickets is $9.70y, so

5.10x+9.70y =896.60.

From the first equation,

x=128-y,

then

53 adult tickets were sold.

-2 and -3

Step-by-step explanation:

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1st. Find the gcf which was 3

The found what added to 5 and multiplied to 6

Then i wrote it inside the parentheses.

The zeros are related to the x's so the zeroes were the opposite of what's in the parentheses.