Question

An hour before showtime only 105 people have a ride for a concert according to sales 95% of the people have yet to arrive how many tickets were sold for the concert explain

Answer 1

Given:

An hour before showtime only 105 people have arrived for a concert.

According to sales 95% of the people have yet to arrive.

To find:

The total number of tickets sold.

Solution:

Let x be the total number of tickets sold.

According to sales 95% of the people have yet to arrive.

$100\%-95\%=5\%$

It means, only 5% people have arrived.

$\dfrac{5}{100}x=105$

$\dfrac{1}{20}x=105$

$x=105\times 20$

$x=2100$

Therefore, the total 2100 tickets were sold.