At the movie theatre, child admission is $6.60 and adult admission is $9.80 . on thursday, 182 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1508.40 . how many adult tickets were sold that day?

96

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the number of adult tickets sold. Then (182-x) is the number of child tickets sold. The total sales is then ...

... 6.60·(182 -x) +9.80·x = 1508.40

... 3.20x = 1508.40 -1201.20 . . . . . simplify, subtract 1201.20

... 307.20/3.20 = x = 96 . . . . . . . . divide by the coefficient of x

96 adult tickets were sold that day.

b

step-by-step explanation:

answer: the sun

explanation:

water cycle describes the evaporation of water from earth's surface, formation of clouds and precipitation water back onto the surface of earth. seventy percent of the earth is covered with water in the form of seas and oceans. the heat of the sun causes the evaporation of water from the surface of the ocean. the water vapors rise and condense to form water droplets. the collection of these water droplets form clouds which rain down again.

the evaporation of the oceans surface water as part of the water cycle is caused by the sun