64 movie tickets are sold. 5/8 of the tickets were for adult admission. How many adult admission tickets were sold?

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Amari May

2 March, 19:53

64 movie tickets are sold. 5/8 of the tickets were for adult admission. How many adult admission tickets were sold?

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Evangeline · Answer 1

40 adult admission tickets were sold

Kelsie Mclaughlin · Answer 2

First take note 64 tickets were sold in total and 5/8 of those tickets were for adults.

To solve this you must first make 5/8 a decimal and to do so you will divide 5 by 8.

which is equal to. 625

Now multiply 65 by. 625

Which will equal 40.42500

So the answer is 40