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325 people were in a tour group six buses were completely filled and 7 people choose to walk how many people did the bus hold?

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You do 325 and subtract 7 and you get 318 and than you divide 318 and 6 because there is 6 buses and your answer would be 53
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Well when you think about this, if 7 people are walking, you can automatically take them out of the total. So you have 318 people who are taking busses. Now take that 318 and divide it among 7 busses. So 318/7 = 45.4285714286. Now looking at this, logically you can't put half a person on one bus and half a person on another, you can't have 1/4 of a person on your bus. So this means some busses would carry 1 more than others. So logically each bus would have to be able to hold 46 people.

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