Question

Last weekend, the movie theater in Wildgrove issued 8,060 tickets to comedies. This weekend, it issued 15,314 tickets to comedies. What is the percent of increase in the number of comedy ticket issued per weekend?

Answer 1

The percent increase in amount of tickets sold is 90 %

Explanation:

We need to calculate what what is the percentage of tickets sold the second weekend, in comparison to the first weekend:

`(15314)/(8060) = 1,9`

Then we just subtract the 1 and we get 0.9 - which is 90%