John bought 16 apples he ate 2 of them. what fraction of the apples did John eat
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Step-by-step explanation:
Let be "t" the number of movie tickets bought by the group of friends.
According to the information given in the exercise, the price of each movie ticket is: $8.50.
Then, you can represent the amount (in dollars) the group of friends spent in movie tickets, with this expression:
You know that one person spent $6.50, then the expression that represents the total amount (in dollars) the group of friends spent in food and movie tickets, is:
Since that total amount spent is given in the exercise, you can write the following equation to determine how many tickets were bought:
Finally, you can solve for "t" in order to find the solution of the equation. This is: