Question

A movie theater sold 500 tickets on

Saturday. If 225 tickets were sold in the
afternoon, what percent of the tickets
were sold in the afternoon?

Answer 1

45% of the tickets were sold in the afternoon

Explanation:

You set the problem up like this:

`(225)/(500)=(?)/(100)`

Then you cross multiply the two, so you multiply the 225 by 100 and the 500 by the ?, which is the % out of 100 that you want to find. That gives you this equation:

`225*100=500(?)`

Then you just solve for the ? (or whatever variable you want to call it). All you have to do is divide by the 500 to get the ? by itself. That gives you 45%!

If you want a shorter way you can also just take that original equation, divide the 225 by 500 and multiply by 100 to give you 45% as well. Either way works.

Here is the general formula my teacher taught us for percents just in case you want it for the future:

`(part)/(whole)=(percent)/(100)`

Hope this helps! ☺

Answer 2

45%

Explanation:

225 of 500 can be written as:

225/500

To find percentage, we need to find an equivalent number with denominator 100. Multiply both numerator & denominator by 100

225/500 × 100/100

= (225 × 100/500) ×

1/100

=

45/100

Therefore, the answer is 45%

Hope this helps :)