An accountant checks the reported earnings for a theater for three nightly performances against the number of tickets sold.
a. Let
b. Set up the augmented matrix for the system and solve the system. (Hint. To make the augmented matrix simpler to work with, consider dividing each linear equation by an appropriate constant)
c. Explain why the auditor knows that there was an error in the record keeping.
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