Box seats for a ball game cost $b each and general admission seats cos

Question

Box seats for a ball game cost $b each and general admission seats cost $g each. If 10,000 seats are sold, and x of the seats are box seats, which expression gives the fraction of money made on seat sales that came from box seats?

A. $\frac{bx}{bx+(10,000-x)g}$

B. $1+(10,000-x)g$

C. $\frac{bx}{10,000}$

D. $\frac{b}{b+g}$

E. $\frac{x}{10,000}$

A.  \frac{bx}{bx+(10,000-x)g}

B.  1+(10,000-x)g

C.  \frac{bx}{10,000}

D.  \frac{b}{b+g}

E.  \frac{x}{10,000}

AC07 · Answer

Number of box seats sold = x
Cost of total box seats sold = bx
Number of general seats sold = 10,000 - x
Cost of total general seats sold = (10,000 - x)g
Fraction of money from box seat sales =  \frac{bx}{bx+(10,000-x)g}

Answer is  A .

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

If x seats are box seats, then (10,000 - x) seats are general admissions seats.

Thus, the money made on box seats was bx, and the total money made on all 10,000 seats was bx + g(10,000 - x).

Thus, the fraction of the money made on seat sales that came from box seats was:

bx/

Answer: A

rocko911 · Answer

In the question stem, X is the total number of box seats OR X is the number of seats that were sold from total box seats????

It is so unclear from the wording

Should not the question be telling from THOSE 10,000 seats x are box seats ....It seems like they are telling the total number of box seats, which may give different equation and meaning

Plunkster82 · Answer

I am pretty sure I got this problem wrong. Part of my issues on the GMAT is that I rush to answer these questions and often don't read the question correctly.

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