Last Saturday, the MoviePlex theater sold 1,456 tickets. The theater sold 6 times as many regular price tickets as it sold discount tickets. Earl says the expression 1,456 divided by 6 gives the number of discount tickets. Is Earl correct? If not, write the correct expression. Explain your answer.

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Answered by jacksonstrand4 | 2024-06-12

Well, one divides by 7, actually, because the total number of tickets is 6+1 times the # of discount tickets. That is, 1,456/7. You don't need to actually perform this division.

Answered by Anonymous | 2024-06-24

Earl is incorrect; the number of discount tickets is not found by dividing 1,456 by 6. Instead, the correct expression is to divide 1,456 by 7. This results in 208 discount tickets sold.
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Answered by jacksonstrand4 | 2024-12-24