) the admission fee at a small fair is $1.50 for children and $4 for adults. on a certain day 2,200 people enter the fair and $5,050 is collected. how many children and how many adults attended?
we can have two simultaneous equations here where let x represent children and y represent adult therefore x+y=2200 1.5x+4y=5050 solving using substitution method y=2200-x substituting this in the second equation we get 1.5x+4(2200-x)=5050 1.5x+8800-4x=5050 3750=2.5x x=1500 so we had 1500 children and 700 adults
