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A Christmas party sells child and adult tickets at a ratio of 4:1. On Saturday, They sold 17 adult tickets, how many child tickets did they sell that day?

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Answer: 68

Step-by-step explanation: To find how many child tickets they sold that day, we need to set up this proportion:


(4)/(1) =
(?)/(17)

So, now we cross multiply, so 1 x 17 = 17, and 4 x 17 = 68. I hope this helped someone!

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Answer:

68

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