Question

tickets sales have gone up 10% reaching 880 tickets. how many ticket were sold in the last season.

Answer 1

Let x be the number of tickets in the last season.

x+10%x=880
x+0.1x=880
1.1x=880
x=800

Therefore, there were 800 tickets sold in the last season.

Answer 2

i would like to leave x out of it

Answer 3

what?

Answer 4

putting the x in just messes me up u loss me with
1.1x=880
x=800
shouldn't it just be multipy and divide

Answer 5

okay, just divide 880 by 1.1 to get the answer.

Answer 6

why is it 1.1

Answer 7

why do we add 1....this is not a joke I really don't understand

Answer 8

1.1 is from adding 1 to 10%(10%is equal to 0.1)
the answer is 1.1.

Answer 9

okay, please go back to the equation that i gave you. it will tell you why we have 1.

Answer 10

have you done pre algebra?

Answer 11

no

Answer 12

ah, that is why, actually, we are translating word problems to mathematical equations here.

Answer 13

that is the problem for me....just don't understand....I can do percentage but these are kicking my butt

Answer 14

okay let us do the percentage then

Answer 15

P=br

Answer 16

what is br

Answer 17

so, try to analyze the problem. It will give us the idea that the tickets sold is 100%.

If we are going to have the equation for the tickets sold for the present, it is number of tickets sold + 10% of it, right?

so, we can have
P=880
r=100%+10%, or r=110%

P=br
880=b(110%)
so, we are going to divide 880 by 110%(or this is 1.1 in decimal form)

As we divide, we will get 800, which is the number of tickets sold in the last season.

Answer 18

wow I would of never got that... thanks..you must be very good I see you answering a lot of questions.

Answer 19

thank you and you are welcome.

kindly click the good answer for me.lol..hehehe