3. Jessica runs a haunted house attraction and sold adult tickets for $10 and ch

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3. Jessica runs a haunted house attraction and sold adult tickets for $10 and children tickets for $6. So far, she sold 60 more adult tickets than children tickets, and she earned $1,000. Find the number of adult tickets and children tickets she sold. (Solve the problem by composing a system of linear equations.) .At er Hair Salon, it takes Jessica 20 minutes to wash and blow hair and 80 minutes to color hair. On Saturday, she made a total of 9 hair jobs in 6 hours. Find the number of wash and blow hair and number of of hair colors she did. Solve the problem by composing a system of linear equations.)

Explanation / Answer

let x be the children tickets she sold

given she shold 60 more adult tickets than children tickets=x+60

given 6x+10(x+60)=1000

16x+600=1000

16x=400

x=25

number of child tickets 25

adult tickets=25+60=85

4)

let number of wash and blow hair be x

number of to color hair bey

x+y=9

20x+80y=6*60

20x+80(9-x)=360

-60x+720=360

60x=360

x=6

y=3

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