Question

A movie theater offers three types of tickets: child, student, and adult. Ticket sales for two movies are shown in the table.

Ticket Type
Child Student Adult Total
Movie Title The Ransom 12 38 70 100
Space Force 34 42 56 132
Total 46 80 126 232
What proportion of tickets sold were adult tickets?

0.4310
0.5431
0.5556
0.7000

Answer 1

Answer:

  (b)  0.5431

Step-by-step explanation:

The proportion of adult tickets sold is the ratio of the total number of adult tickets sold to the total number of tickets sold. Those totals are found on the bottom line of the table.

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  proportion = (adult tickets)/(total tickets) = 126/232 ≈ 0.5431

Approximately 0.5431 of the tickets sold were adult tickets.