The circus had one performance at the dewey civic center and one at the atlantic auditorium. the dewey civic center has 1,600 seats. tickets for 85% of the total number of seats were sold. how many tickets were sold?

85% of all seats
85% of 1600
2 ways

1. math
2. logic+math (easier)

1. math
85%=85/100=0.85
85% of 1600=0.85*1600=1360 seats sold

2. logic+math
85%=85 parts out of every 100
how many hundreds are ther in 1600?
16 of them
16*85=1360

answer is 1360 tickets were sold

B) greg: 30 points , tremaine 38 points