Question

Hope you can help.. Washington Middle school sold 405 tickets to the annual musical production for Friday night. if the tickets sold for Friday night were only 45% of the total tickets sold, how many total tickets were sold for the production??

Answer 1

We need to do the next operation

405----- 45%

x ---------100%

x represent the total tickets

$x=\frac{100\cdot405}{45}=900$

the total tickets were 900