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Marco's Drama class is performing a play. He wants to buy as many tickets as he can afford. If tickets,cost $3.50 each and he has $15.75 to spend, how many tickets can he buy?

User Dreamriver
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Answer:

He can buy 4 tickets

Explanation:

you take $15.75 and divide it by $3.50 to get 4.5, then round down to get 4

User Toeplitz
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Answer:

4

Explanation:

You just have to divide the money he has by the ticket price.

The answer to that division is 4.5, but he can't buy half ticket, so the answer is 4

User Matt Jacobsen
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