The art museum is giving away tickets to the Greco exhibit. Today, the museum expects to give away 150 percent of the 800 tickets that it gave away yesterday. Martin is trying to figure out how many tickets the museum will give away today. His work is shown below.

Question

StartFraction part Over whole EndFraction = StartFraction 150 Over 100 EndFraction

100 times 8 = 800

150 divided by 8 = 18.75

What mistake did Martin make?
Martin should have multiplied 150 by 8.
Martin should have divided 100 by 8.
Martin should have added 150 and 800.
Martin should have multiplied 150 and 800.
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Answer 1

The mistake Martin made is that he did not correctly calculate the number of tickets to be given away today.

The museum plans to give away 150% of the tickets given away yesterday, which was 800 tickets. The correct calculation should be:

150% of 800 = (150/100) * 800 = 1.5 * 800 = 1200 tickets.

Therefore, to find how many tickets the museum will give away today, Martin should have multiplied 150 by 8 (which is to calculate 150% of the 800 tickets).

So, the correct answer is: Martin should have multiplied 150 by 8.