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If 15 tickets for a baseball game cost $97.50, how many tickets can be bought for $71.50

If 15 tickets for a baseball game cost $97.50, how many tickets can be bought for-example-1
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At 15 tickets, it’s 6 dollars and 50 cents per ticket. Your answer would be 11 tickets, at 71.50
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Each ticket is 6.5 (divide 97.5 by 15), since we know this we can think of a number close to 13, such as 11, which gives you exactly 71.50
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