Question

For every 3 tickets you sell, your friend sells 4 tickets. You sell a total of 12 tickets. How many tickets does your friend sell?

Answer 1

To find out how many tickets your friend sells, we can set up a proportion based on the given information.

First, let's write the proportion using the number of tickets you sell and the number of tickets your friend sells:

Your tickets / Your friend's tickets = Your sales / Your friend's sales

Now, let's plug in the numbers we know:

12 / Your friend's tickets = 3 / 4

To solve this proportion, we can cross-multiply:

12 * 4 = Your friend's tickets * 3

48 = Your friend's tickets * 3

Next, we can isolate the variable by dividing both sides of the equation by 3:

48 / 3 = Your friend's tickets

16 = Your friend's tickets

So, your friend sells a total of 16 tickets.

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