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Yesterday, the movie theater brought in $1,440 in ticket sales and $295.25 in food sales. Today, ticket sales were three-fourths as much as yesterday, and food sales were down by $33.50. Nina wrote the expression

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Answer: Sample response: Nina is correct. Her expression represents the scenario because it takes ¾ of the ticket sales and subtracts $33.50 from the food sales.

Explanation:

Check all of the following that you included in your response.


Yes. This expression can be used to find the total sales.

Nina multiplied yesterday’s ticket sales by ¾ to find today’s tickets sales.

Nina added - $33.50 because food sales were down by that amount.

Nina added the ticket sales and food sales to find the total sales.

Yesterday, the movie theater brought in $1,440 in ticket sales and $295.25 in food-example-1
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Complete question is;

Yesterday, the movie theater brought in $1,440 in ticket sales and $295.25 in food sales. Today, ticket sales were three-fourths as much as yesterday, and food sales were down by $33.50. Nina wrote the expression ¾(1440) + 295.25 + (-33.50) to find today's total sales. Is she correct? Explain.

Answer:

Nina is correct

Explanation:

Today, ticket sales were three-fourths as much as yesterday.

Thus, it means today's ticket sales will now be; $¾(1,440) = $1080

Now, food sales were down by $33.50.

Thus, food sales for today is;

$295.25 - $33.50 = $261.75

Thus,total ticket sales for today is;

1080 + 261.75 = $1341.75

From the expression of Nina which is ¾(1440) + 295.25 + (-33.50) ;

When calculated it gives the same value we got as $1341.75.

This means that Nina is correct

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