Question

A movie theater sells 11,550 tickets for 50 sold-out showings

of the same movie. Write a division equation that you can use to find the
number of people who bought tickets for each showing. Use what you
know about dividing with larger numbers to solve the equation. MP.8

Answer 1

To determine the number of tickets sold per movie showing, divide the total number of tickets (11,550) by the number of showings (50) to get 231 tickets per showing.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of people who bought tickets for each showing at the movie theater, we can write a division equation. The equation should divide the total number of tickets sold, 11,550, by the number of sold-out showings, which is 50. Hence, the division equation is:

Tickets per showing = Total tickets sold ÷ Number of showings

Plugging in the values we have:

Tickets per showing = 11,550 ÷ 50

To solve for the number of tickets per showing, divide 11,550 by 50. When you perform the division, you get:

Tickets per showing = 231

This means there were 231 tickets sold for each of the 50 showings.