a university theater sold 556 tickets for a play, tickets cost $22 per adult tickets and $ 12 for senior citizen ticket, if the total receipt was 8492, how many senior citizen ticket were sold

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Let no. of adult tickets be x and senior citizen tickets be y. x + y = 556 22x + 12y = 8492 Solving by simultanous equations, x = 182 adult tickets y = 374 senior citizen tickets