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At a special sale, S tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 ticke

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At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at this sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets?

(A) $$20$$%

(B) $$33 \frac{1}{3}$$%

(C) $$40$$%

(D) $$60$$%

(E) $$66 \frac{2}{3}$$%

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26 Nov 2018, 09:17
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At a special sale, S tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at this sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets?

(A) $$20$$%
(B) $$33 \frac{1}{3}$$%
(C) $$40$$%
(D) $$60$$%
(E) $$66 \frac{2}{3}$$%

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let ticket price be $5 5 tickets = 25$

discounted price for 5 tickets 15$$$\frac{(25-15)}{25} *100 =40$$ IMO: C Intern Joined: 08 Sep 2017 Posts: 5 Re: At a special sale, S tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 ticke [#permalink] Show Tags 26 Nov 2018, 21:42 let price of 1 ticket be x$

therefore Actual price of 3 tickets and 5 tickets is 3x$& 5x$ respectively

At special rate Cost of 5 tickets is 3x$( No other information is given for S therefore S must be equal to 5) therefore savings = actual price of 5 tickets - special price = 5x-3x =2x % saved = 2x/5x = 40% Director Joined: 27 May 2012 Posts: 905 Re: At a special sale, S tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 ticke [#permalink] Show Tags 18 Jan 2019, 07:08 1 HKD1710 wrote: At a special sale, S tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at this sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets? (A) $$20$$% (B) $$33 \frac{1}{3}$$% (C) $$40$$% (D) $$60$$% (E) $$66 \frac{2}{3}$$% Project PS Butler : Question #41 Subscribe to get Daily Email - Click Here | Subscribe via RSS - RSS Dear Moderator , Just found this question, there seems to be a typo here , the variable "s" has been used instead of the number "5", leading to immense confusion, hope you will look into this and do the needful. Thank you. _________________ - Stne Math Expert Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 58473 Re: At a special sale, S tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 ticke [#permalink] Show Tags 18 Jan 2019, 10:25 stne wrote: HKD1710 wrote: At a special sale, S tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at this sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets? (A) $$20$$% (B) $$33 \frac{1}{3}$$% (C) $$40$$% (D) $$60$$% (E) $$66 \frac{2}{3}$$% Project PS Butler : Question #41 Subscribe to get Daily Email - Click Here | Subscribe via RSS - RSS Dear Moderator , Just found this question, there seems to be a typo here , the variable "s" has been used instead of the number "5", leading to immense confusion, hope you will look into this and do the needful. Thank you. ___________________ Edited. Thank you. _________________ GMAT Tutor Joined: 07 Nov 2016 Posts: 56 GMAT 1: 760 Q51 V42 Re: At a special sale, S tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 ticke [#permalink] Show Tags 18 Jan 2019, 20:06 HKD1710 wrote: At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at this sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets? (A) $$20$$% (B) $$33 \frac{1}{3}$$% (C) $$40$$% (D) $$60$$% (E) $$66 \frac{2}{3}$$% Project PS Butler : Question #41 Subscribe to get Daily Email - Click Here | Subscribe via RSS - RSS Let the original price of each ticket be 100 Original price of 5 tickets = 500 5 tickets were obtained for the price of 3 tickets Actual price of 5 tickets = 300 Savings = 200 Percentage Savings = (200/500) * 100 = 40% Choice C _________________ Please contact me at ksrutisagar@gmail.com Director Joined: 09 Mar 2018 Posts: 994 Location: India Re: At a special sale, S tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 ticke [#permalink] Show Tags 09 Feb 2019, 21:11 HKD1710 wrote: At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at this sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets? (A) $$20$$% (B) $$33 \frac{1}{3}$$% (C) $$40$$% (D) $$60$$% (E) $$66 \frac{2}{3}$$% let price of a ticket be$10

Price of 5 tickets = $50 Now i can get 5 at the price of 3 which will be$30

Money saved = 50 -30 =20

the amount saved
20= x/100 *50 = 40 %

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