Band members make 2/3 of their profit from selling concert tickets. They make 1/5 of their profit selling band merchandise. How many times more profit do they make from ticket sales than from merchandise sales?
the tickets make 3x more because first you have to convert fractions to the same denominator. So 2/3 goes to 10/15 and 1/5 goes to 3/15 so as you can see, the tickets make the times more