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Students sold 400 tickets to the spring band concert. The students sold adult and child (under 12 years old) tickets. Each adult ticket was $5.00 and each child ticket was $2.00. The total amount of money earned from the sale of tickets was $1475. Please choose the correct set of equations that one would use to help solve this application problem and give answers to how many adult and child tickets were sold.

Question 1. options:

A. {5x+2y=400

  {x+5y=1475

B.  {x+2x=400

  {y+5y=1475

C. {5x=400

  {2x=1475

D. {5x+2y=1475

  {x+y=400