Glastonbury 2017 tickets
sell out in less than an hour as music fans complain about festival website
crashing
Bad news for anyone still hoping to make it to Glastonbury
Festival 2017: over 100,000 tickets sold out this morning before 10am, amid
complaints that the ticketing website was crashing
The coveted tickets were released this morning at
9am and were all gone before 10. The festival organisers posted the
tweet below, breaking the news to disappointed music fans, at 9.54am.
A smaller batch of 15,000 tickets with coach
packages, released on Thursday last week, are also all gone, selling out
within 23 minutes.
Questions:
- What is the rate at which the tickets sold?
- What is the rate at which the ‘tickets with coach packages’ sold?
- What is the combined rate for both types of ticket?
- How long did each standard ticket take to sell?
- How long did each ‘ticket with coach package’ take to sell?
- How long did each ticket take to sell on average?
Comments:
It is
necessary to choose units here. This
could be ‘number of tickets per minute’ (or per second, or per hour). The other big idea is that when combining
both types of ticket we can’t just take the average. We need to use the total number of tickets
divided by the total time.
