Math / Numbers & Operations

Question75\% of the tickets sold at an amusement park were discount tickets. If the park sold 800 tickets in all, how many discount tickets did it sell? $\square$ tickets

Studdy Solution

STEP 1

1. The percentage of tickets sold that were discount tickets is $75\%$ .
2. The total number of tickets sold is $800$ .
3. We need to find the number of discount tickets sold.

STEP 2

1. Convert the percentage to a decimal.
2. Calculate the number of discount tickets.

STEP 3

Convert the percentage of discount tickets to a decimal by dividing by $100$ .
$75\% = \frac{75}{100} = 0.75$

STEP 4

Multiply the total number of tickets by the decimal to find the number of discount tickets.
$0.75 \times 800 = 600$
The number of discount tickets sold is:
$\boxed{600 \text{ tickets}}$

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