Question

. A school band sold 432 tickets for their upcoming spring concert. This represents about 85.5% of the number of tickets sold last year. How many tickets were sold last year? (Round to the nearest whole number)

Answer 1

Based on the question, we know that the
original value multiplied by .855 will equate
to 432:
ticketstastyear * 0.855 = 132
Dividing each side by 0.855 results in the
amount of tickets sold last year:
ticketslastyear ~ 505.263
We round to the nearest whole number of
505.

The answer is 505