Question

A record label company recently released two albums. Both albums are available for purchase as CDs or digital downloads. The table shows the number of copies in
each format solid on the day of release.
Album 1 Album 2
540 571
Digital Download
452
the percentage of copies of album 1 sold as CDs is
of the total dia downloads sold
were of album 2
as digital downloads than album

Answer 1

Answer:

The percentage of copies of album 1 sold as CDs is  

53 %. (*note answer would be 53.5% but if you read it says to round your answer to nearest WHOLE number, that would make it 53%)

Of the total digital downloads sold,  

49 % were of album 2.

The record label sold a higher percentage of album  

1  as digital downloads than album 2

.

Step-by-step explanation:

got right on plato/edmentum

Answer 2

Album 1 sold 540 CD copies and was downloaded 470 times. So, in total, it was sold

$540+470=1010$

times. So, the percentage of CDs is

$\dfrac{540}{1010}\cdot 100=53.5\%$

Similarly, the total of digital downloads is

$470+452=922$

Which means that the percentage represented by album 2 is

$\dfrac{452}{922}\cdot 100=49\%$

Now, we already saw that album 1 sold $53.5\%$ of copied as CD, implying that the remaining $46.5\%$ are downloads. A similar computation for album 2 gives the following percentage of downloads:

$\dfrac{452}{452+571}\cdot 100 = 44.18\%$

So, album 1 had the highest percentage of download selling.