At the movie theatre, child admission is $6.30 and adult admission is $9.60 . on saturday, twice as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $535.50 . how many child tickets were sold that day?

Let's assume

number of child tickets sold on saturday is x

number of adult tickets sold on saturday is y

On saturday, twice as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold

so, we get

child admission is $6.30 and adult admission is $9.60

a total sales of $535.50

we get

now, we can plug y=2x

now, we can solve for x

now, we can find y

so,

number of child tickets sold on saturday is 21

number of adult tickets sold on saturday is 42.........Answer

536

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