SOLUTION: Jack sold five times as many tickets as Jill, but Jack could not have sold more than 41 tickets. What is the maximum number of tickets Jill could have sold?
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Question 1115544: Jack sold five times as many tickets as Jill, but Jack could not have sold more than 41 tickets. What is the maximum number of tickets Jill could have sold? Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! x be the number of tickets Jill sold, then Jack sold 5x tickets.
Jack could not have sold more than 41 tickets.
5x ≤ 41
x ≤ 8.2
it should be a whole number value of x , the maximum number of tickets Jill could have sold is 8.
