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Systems of linear equations word problems: advanced

Problem

At Charlie's Cinema, a total of 1,200 adult and child movie tickets were sold to bring in $10,875 in ticket sales one evening. If each child ticket costs $7.50 and each adult ticket costs $10.00, how many adult tickets were sold that evening?
  • Your answer should be
  • an integer, like 6
  • a simplified proper fraction, like 3/5
  • a simplified improper fraction, like 7/4
  • a mixed number, like 1 3/4
  • an exact decimal, like 0.75
  • a multiple of pi, like 12 pi or 2/3 pi

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