Aplay was attended by 173 people. adult tickets were $5 each and children paid $3 for each ticket the total revenue was $703. how many of each kind of ticket were sold?

81 children and 92 adults

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve the exercise, check the data we have from the question:

Total people: 173

Adult tickets price: $5

Children tickets price: $3

Total revenue: $703

We need to know how many of each kind of ticket were sold. To do so, we can show the data as two equations:

Equation 1:

Equation 2:

Where a represents adults who attended the event and c represents children who attended the event. We can replace one of the unknown quantities following:

Solving:

Then, we replace c on equation 2: