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Ty had 50 tickets for games at a carnival.He used 1/5 of the tickets to play the ball-toss game.He then used 1/2 of the remaining tickets to play the video games.How many tickets did Ty have after playing these games?Show your work.

User Xpredo
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The answer is 5 tickets left, review the image I've created to see how i got my answer.
Ty had 50 tickets for games at a carnival.He used 1/5 of the tickets to play the ball-example-1
User Razu
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50 divided by 5 is 10 so 1/5 is equal to 10. 50-10=40, 40/2=20, 40-20=20 so 20 is the final answer
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