A nature center charges a $5 admission charge for children who are 12 years old or younger and $10 for those 13 years old and

Question

A nature center charges a $5 admission charge for children who are 12 years old or younger and
$10 for those 13 years old and older. On Tuesday, the petting zoo took in $1620 from ticket
sales and sold a total of 232 tickets. How many tickets of each type were sold?

a. Clearly write the unknown quantities you're being asked to find and assign variables to
represent each of them.
Let x =
Let y =

b. Using the information in the problem, write a system of equations representing this scenario.
You may consider making a table to organize the known and unknown quantities to help you
write the system.

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