Question

An individual ticket at Wild Waves has been marked down $30 to $26.40. A family pass has been marked down from $80 to $71.40. Which deal offers a
better discount? (show your work)
and can u show ur work*

Answer 1

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Answer:

  $30 ticket

Step-by-step explanation:

The cheaper ticket is 3/8 the cost of the expensive one. If the tickets have the same discount the discounted cheaper ticket would cost ...

  (3/8)($71.40) = $26.78

The cheaper ticket costs less than that, so the $30 ticket has a better discount.

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Figuring the discount on each ticket is more work. I like to do as little work as possible. (If you do that work, you find the $30 ticket is discounted 12%, and the $80 ticket is discounted 10.75%.)