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A total of 511 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were more student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

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Answer:

less than 256

Explanation:

Rule of 3. They were more than 50% of the tickets that were for students.

511*50/100 = 255,5

That means that less than 256 tickets were adult tikets

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