Using a System of Equations

A total of 330 children and adults attended a school play.  There were 21 times as many children in attendance as there were adults.

This situation is modeled by the given system of equations, where a represents the number of adults and c represents the number of children.

c = 21a
a + c = 330

How many children attended the play?

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