Question

36 students ride a school bus home. The same number of students get off at each stop. Harriet knows how many students got off at one stop. How could she find how many stops the bus made?

Answer 1

Harriet can find out how many stops the bus made by dividing the total number of students on the bus by the number of students who got off at one stop.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many stops the bus made, Harriet can divide the total number of students on the bus by the number of students who got off at one stop.

Let's say Harriet saw that 8 students got off at one stop. If there are 36 students on the bus, we can divide 36 by 8 to find out how many stops the bus made.

36 ÷ 8 = 4

Therefore, the bus made 4 stops.

Answer 2

Givens:

• 36 students ride the bus.
• The same number of students get off at each stop.
• Harriet knows how many students got off at one stop.

If Harriet has that information, she only need to divided the total amount of students by the number of students that got off at one stop. She can do this and find the answer because the number of students that get off is always the same in each stop.

For example, let's say that Harriet knows that at specific stop, 6 students got off. Then she divided 36/6=6, meaning that she made 6 stops in total. That's how she could find the total number of stops.