Question

A group of 16 people went to the amusement park. There were two types of tickets; adult and child. Six of the individuals in the group were adults. Adult tickets were $8 and child tickets were $6. How many children were in the group?

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Answer 1

There were 10 children in the group

Explanation:

Here, we want to know the number of children in the group;

Firstly , we were told that the group contains 16 people

Secondly, we are also told that 6 of the people there are adults

and there are only two ticket types ( adult and children)

So the number of children will be the total

number of people in the group- number of adults = 16-6 = 10