Question

At the beginning of a class period,half of the student in a class go to the library. Later in the period,half of the remaining students go to the computer lab.If there are 8 students remaining in the class, how many students were originally in the class?

Answer 1

`32` students were in the class originally

Explanation:

Work the question backwards:

#{: ("Final number of students:",8), ("Number of students before computer lab:",8xx2=16), ("Number of students before library:",16xx2=32) :}#