Question

The college is selling tickets to the basketball ball game for $59.30 each.So far they have made $213,480 in ticket sales . How many tickets have they sold?

Answer 1

3600

Explanation:

Shift the decimals of both 213480 and 59.3 to the right by 2 decimal places. (This is needed to convert 59.3 to 5930, since long division must divide by a whole number.)

21348000÷5930

Therefore, 213480\div 59.3=3600213480÷59.3=3600.