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Solve each problem.Of the 800 tickets sold to a movie, 480 were full-price tickets costing $\$ 7$ each. If the gate receipts were $\$ 4,960$, what did a student ticket cost?
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This can be done by multiplying the number of full price tickets by the cost of each ticket. So, $7 \times 480 = 3360$. Show more…
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