The city bus line charges $2 per adult and $1 per child to ride. During a 4-hour period a bus driver collects $1,171 from 617 riders. What is the system of equation

Step-by-step explanation:

Let A represent number of adults and C represent number children.

We have been given that there are 617 rider. We can represent this information in an equation as:

We are also told that the city bus line charges $2 per adult, so cost of ride for A adults would be .

The city bus line charges $1 per child to ride, so cost of ride for C children would be .

We are told that a bus driver collects $1,171 from 617 riders. This means total ride cost of A adults and C children is equal to $1171. We can represent this information in an equation as:

Therefore, our required system of equations would be:

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