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A movie theater sold 125 tickets for a a movie. A children’s ticket costs $6 and an adult ticket costs $12. If the theater sold $1,170 worth of tickets, how many adult tickets were sold?

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Let a = number of adult tickets. Then child tickets = 125 − a. Revenue: 12a + 6(125 − a) = 1170.

Solve: 12a + 750 − 6a = 1170 → 6a = 420 → a = 70.

So 70 adult tickets were sold.