Question

80% of the tickets sold at a school carnival were early-admission tickets. If the school sold 75 tickets in all, how many early-admission tickets did it sell?

__ early-admission tickets

Answer 1

60 early-admission tickets

Explanation:

80% of the tickets sold at a school carnival were early-admission tickets. If the school sold 75 tickets in all, there were 60 early-admission tickets sold.

4/5 ⋅ 75/1 = 300/5 or 60

Answer 2

If we know that 80% of the tickets sold were early-admission tickets, we can find how many early-admission tickets were sold by finding 80% of 75.

60 early-admission tickets