Question

For a field trip 19 students rode in cars and the rest filled the 10 buses how many students were in each bus if 519 students were on the trip

answer as an equation please help

Answer 1

Answer: 10x + 19 = 519 x = 50

Explanation:

We are looking for the number of students that rode in each bus, so first lets subtract out those that drove in cars.

519-19=500

So 500 students rode on 10 buses. So now we divide the students onto the buses.

500/10 = 50

Each bus drove 50 students.

An equation to represent the total number of students as a function of those on the buses would be

10x + 19 = 519

x = 50 (the number of students on each bus)