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Movie theater X [#permalink] New post   17 Dec 2015, 05:44
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Movie theater X charges $6 per ticket, and each movie showing costs the theatre $1,750. How many people need to see a movie so that the theater makes $1 of profit per customer?

(A) 300
(B) 325
(C) 350
(D) 375
(E) 400

Even though it's easy, I am so confused? Can we solve logically without profit formula?
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Re: Movie theater X [#permalink] New post   18 Dec 2015, 17:54
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Movie theater X charges $6 per ticket, and each movie showing costs the theatre $1,750. How many people need to
see a movie so that the theater makes $1 of profit per customer?
(A) 300
(B) 325
(C) 350
(D) 375
(E) 400

Even though it's easy, I am so confused? Can we solve logically without profit formula?
Thank You.


Let there be x customers.
Each customer pays $6 for tickets and theater makes $1 profit per customer. So cost of the movie (for the theater)is $5 per customer.

From question we have \($5 * x = 1750\) or \(x = 350\)

Option C
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Re: Movie theater X [#permalink] New post   19 Jul 2018, 15:58
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victory wrote:
Movie theater X charges $6 per ticket, and each movie showing costs the theatre $1,750. How many people need to see a movie so that the theater makes $1 of profit per customer?

(A) 300
(B) 325
(C) 350
(D) 375
(E) 400


We can let x = the number of customers and create the following equation:

6x - 1,750 = 1x

5x = 1,750

x = 350

Answer: C
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Re: Movie theater X [#permalink] New post   20 Jul 2018, 14:06
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Movie theater X charges $6 per ticket, and each movie showing costs the theatre $1,750. How many people need to see a movie so that the theater makes $1 of profit per customer?

(A) 300
(B) 325
(C) 350
(D) 375
(E) 400

Even though it's easy, I am so confused? Can we solve logically without profit formula?
Thank You.



let the number of people be x.

Profit = selling price - cost.

Note:we have to make all the components parallel. Either all components using must be for single guy or for group of people.

6x -1750 = 1

5x = 1750

x = 350.

The best answer is C.
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Movie theater X charges $6 per ticket [#permalink] New post   05 Jan 2022, 09:12
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Movie theater X charges $6 per ticket, and each movie showing costs the theatre $1,750. How many people need to see a movie so that the theater makes $1 of profit per customer?

(A) 300
(B) 325
(C) 350
(D) 375
(E) 400

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Re: Movie theater X charges $6 per ticket [#permalink] New post   05 Jan 2022, 09:19
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Here, we need to find the number of customers yielding the same amount of dollars in profit.

Let \(y\) customers go to watch the movie. We know that Profit = Revenue - Cost

\(y\) should be such a number that gives \($y\) in profit.

\(y=6y-1750\)

\(y=\frac{1750}{5}\)

\(y=350\)

Hence, the answer is C.
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Re: Movie theater X charges $6 per ticket [#permalink] New post   05 Jan 2022, 10:00
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