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Last weekend, 5% of the tickets sold at Seaworldwere discount tickets. If Seaworld sold 60 tickets inall, howmany discount tickets did it sell? Use thepercent proportion.

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Let:

N = Total tickets

d = discount tickets

r = percent of discount tickets sold

so:


\begin{gathered} d=N\cdot r \\ where\colon \\ N=60 \\ r=0.05 \\ so\colon \\ d=60\cdot0.05 \\ d=3 \end{gathered}

3 discount tickets were sold

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