Question

The drama club is planning a field trip. Two-thirds of the drama club will attend, in addition to 8 teachers. There are 48 people going on the field trip. Write an equation you can use to find the number of students in the drama club.

Answer 1

48/3=16 16 is 1/3 of the kids on the trip, therefore 2/3 is 32 plus 8 is 40

40 people

Answer 2

60

Explanation:

In this example, we want to learn how many people are in the drama club. This will be "x" as it is the number that we want to discover. This number is the same as two thirds of the drama club plus 8 teachers.

Therefore:

48 = 2/3 (x) + 8

There are 60 people in the drama club.