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  • 02-04-2020
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A ticket at a movie theater cost $8.50. One night, the theater had $29,886 in ticket sales how many tickets were sold

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  • 02-04-2020

Answer:

  3,516

Step-by-step explanation:

Let t represent the number of tickets sold. Then 8.50t is the number of dollars in sales resulting from selling those tickets. We have ...

  8.50t = 29,886

Dividing by the coefficient of t gives ...

  t = 29,886/8.50 = 3,516

3,516 tickets were sold that night.

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In short, divide the total revenue by the revenue per ticket to find the number of tickets.

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