Last saturday, the movieplex theater sold 1,456 tickets. the theater sold 6 times as many regular price tickets as it sold discount tickets. earl says that the expression 1,456 divided by 6 gives the correct number of discounted tickets. is earl correct? show your work

Earl is incorrect

let x be the number of discount tickets sold

then the number of regular tickets sold is 6x

the total tickets sold is 1456, thus

x + 6x = 1456

7x = 1456 ( divide both sides by 7 )

x = 208

number of discount tickets sold = 208

≠ 208

but = 208

Earl is incorrect , dividing by 7 gives the amount sold

36/60

36/2=18

60/2=30

18/30

18/3=6

30/3=10

6/10

6/2=3

10/2=5

your final answer would be 3/5 of an

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