Question

2 The 49 police officers in Keller, Texas issued 8,575 speeding tickets last year. If each officer issued the same number of tickets, how many tickets did each officer issue? F 205 G 185 H 175 J 145

Answer 1

Given:

The total number of police in Keller

`N_{\text{police}}=49`

The total number of speeding tickets issued last year is

`N_{sped\in g\text{ tickets}}=8575`

If each officer issued the same number of tickets, the number of tickets each officer issued would be:

`(8575)/(49)`

Let us use long division to solve as shown below

From the above, the solution of the division is 175 tickets, OPTION J