There are four movies showing at the theater, 2/5 of the people bought tickets for the comedy, 1/4 bought tickets for the horror movie and 3/10 bought tickets to the kids movie. What fraction represents the number of people who bought tickets for the action movie?

Respuesta :

Given:

Number of people bought tickets for comedy = [tex]\frac{2}{5}[/tex]

Number of people bought tickets for horror = [tex]\frac{1}{4}[/tex]

Number of people bought tickets for kids movie = [tex]\frac{3}{10}[/tex]

To find the number of people who bought tickets for the action movie.

Let us take,

Total number of tickets = 1

Now,

Total number of tickets for comedy, horror and kids movie are = [tex](\frac{2}{5} +\frac{1}{4} +\frac{3}{10} )[/tex]

So,

[tex](\frac{2}{5} +\frac{1}{4} +\frac{3}{10} )[/tex]

LCM of 5,4,10 = 20

= [tex]\frac{8+5+6}{20}[/tex]

= [tex]\frac{19}{20}[/tex]

Rest are action movie's tickets.

Therefore,

Number of action movie tickets = [tex]1-\frac{19}{20}[/tex]

= [tex]\frac{20-19}{20}[/tex]

= [tex]\frac{1}{20}[/tex]

Hence,

The number of people who bought the tickets for action movie is [tex]\frac{1}{20}[/tex].