There were a total of 107 students and chaperones on a field trip to the museum. If the number of chaperones was thirteen less than seven times the number of students, what is the number of students?
1 Answer
May 9, 2018
There are
Explanation:
So I'll set up an equation to help solve this, with
The bottom equation is essentially saying that students plus chaperones (which equals 13 less than 7 times the number of students) equals 107 people.
You can remove the parentheses from this equation:
And combine like terms:
And divide both sides by
To get:
Because
And to double check:
Meaning that there are