Question

marcus bought a booklet of tickets to use at the amusement park.he used 50% on the rides,1/3 of the tickets on video games, and the rest of the tickets in the batting cage. marcus says he used 10% of the tickets in the batting cage. do you agree. explain

Answer 1

No, i do not agree. To find this out, we will have to convert all of them into either decimals or percents. Let's convert these all into percents. A percent means 'out of 100', so if we add the percents all together, they should equal to 100. The rides is 50%. To convert 1/3 into a percent, divide the numerator by the denominator. You will get a decimal, so then multiply that by 100 or move the decimal two places to the right. So, 1 divided by 3 is equal to approximately 33%. Let's add 50 and 33 together. The total is 83%. So, like I said, a percent is out of 100. Subtract 83 out of 100 and you will get 17. So, the remaining percent has to be 17 percent, not 10%.

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