SOLUTION: You sold somebooks at $24 each and had enough money to buy some concert tickets at $50 each, with no money left over. What is the least amount you could have earned from selling t

Question 145863: You sold somebooks at $24 each and had enough money to buy some concert tickets at $50 each, with no money left over. What is the least amount you could have earned from selling the books? what is the smallest number of books that you could have sold? How many tickets did you buy?
Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
for this problem, simply count up in multiples of 24 until you get to a number that is divisible by 50.
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24
48
72
96
120
144
168
*
*
*
600
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What is the least amount you could have earned from selling the books? $600
.
what is the smallest number of books that you could have sold? 600/24 = 25
.
How many tickets did you buy? 600/50 = 12

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