Question

Each person in a ticket line gets either one or two tickets. You are the 51st person in line. Forty percent of the people in front of you get one ticket each, and the rest of the people in front of you get two tickets each. How many tickets will have been given out when you reach the ticket booth?

Answer 1

80 tickets have been given out

50*.4=20
50*.6=30
30*2=60
60+20=80