four movie tickets cost $26.00. How much do seven movie tickets cost?

5 answers

the cost of the tickets caries directly with the number of tickets

4 tickets cost $26.00

lets assume that 7 more tickets that is 4 + 7 = 11 tickets cost x dollars

now we have:

4 : 26 = 11 : x

by solving we find:

x = $71.50
not what i was looking for.......
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it was fine, could have been better.......
But how did it get to x= 71.50?