A lottery sells a total of 60,000 lottery tickets. You buy 100 tickets and of these 90 are blanks (no prize). Approximately how many blanks were there in total in this lottery?

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A lottery sells a total of 60,000 lottery tickets. You buy 100 tickets and of these 90 are blanks (no prize). Approximately how many blanks were there in total in this lottery?

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Answer:

≈ 54000 blank tickets

Explanation:

90 out of 100 = 9/10

9/10 × 60000 = 54000

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