A movie theater charges 7.00 for adults and 2.00 for seniors citizens. On a day when 304 people paid

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A movie theater charges 7.00 for adults and 2.00 for seniors citizens. On a day when 304 people paid for admission, the total receipt were 1118. How many who paid were adults ? How many were senior citizens?

Let a be the number of adult tickets. Let s be the number of senior citizen tickets. We're given two equations:

1. a + s = 304
2. 7a + 2s = 1118

We can solve this system of equations three ways:

• Substitution Method
• Elimination Method
• Cramer's Method

No matter which way we choose, we end up with the same answer:

• a = 102
• s = 202