Question

This week, 300 tickets were sold to the school play. This is 120 percent of the number of tickets sold last week. How many tickets were sold last week for the school play?

Answer 1

20 percent of 300 of 50 so if you subtract 50 from 300 you get 250

Answer 2

300=120/100* number of tickets sold last week.

So last week's number of tickets=300÷(120/100)=300*100/120=30*100/12=5*100/2=5*50=250 tickets

So the answer is 250