A radio station had 75 tickets to a concert. They gave away 2 times as many tickets to listeners as to employees. How many tickets did they give away to employees?

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anonymous · Answer

i think 150

anonymous · Answer

That doesn't make sense. They only had 75 tickets. 

Do you want to try again or do you want me to answer the question?

anonymous · Answer

Let e = the number of employee tickets

Since they give out twice as many tickets to listeners, then the number of tickets they gave to listeners = 2e

So e +2e = 75
3e=75
e=25

They gave 25 tickets to the employees