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

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

times. So, the percentage of CDs is

Similarly, the total of digital downloads is

Which means that the percentage represented by album 2 is

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

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

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:

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