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In the fifth grade there are 4/5 as many students who do not have glasses as those who do wear glasses if there are 60 students who wear glasses how many students are there in fifth grade

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Answer:

300 students

Explanation:

Since 4/5 of students do not wear glasses, 1/5 of students do.

There are 60 students who wear glasses, so let 'x' represent the number of students who wear glasses

(1/5)x = 60 is our equation. "One-fifth of the number of students who wear glasses is 60"

Now solve for x

(1/5)x = 60

x = 300 (multiply both sides by 5 to get rid of the fraction)

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