Question

20% of the tickets sold at a school carnival were early-admission tickets. If the school sold 30 tickets in all, how many early-admission tickets did it sellz?

Answer 1

6 early-admission tickets.

Explanation:

20% / 100 = 0.2 ; Dividing a percentage by 100 will give you its actual value, instead of the percentage.

0.20 x 30 tickets = 6 early-admission tickets. ; What we're saying here is that since 0.20 and 20% are the same, we can figure out what 20% of 30 is, which is 6.