Question

171 people used the public swimming pool. The daily prices are 1.50 for children and 2.50 for adults. The receipts for admission totaled 321.50 How many children and how many adults swam at the public pool that​ day? I need this done fast because I have a big test coming up and this is the only question I'm having trouble with its and i have to send this review in by 12:00 tonight

Answer 1

65 Adults and 106 children

Explanation

a= adults

c= children

2.5a+1.5(171-a) =321.5

a=65

now we have the number of adults we minus that by the amount of people (171) to give us for the number of children and we get 106.