Question

Hillview Elementary School has 5 sixth-grade classes of 23 students each. On a Friday, the entire 6th grade went on a field trip tothe science museum. Some of the 6th graders were absent that day.If s represents the number of 6th grade students who were absent on that Friday, which of the following expressions shows howmany 6th graders went to the science museum?

Answer 1

B (23x5)-s

1) Gathering the data:

5 6th grade classes of 23 students

S= absent students

2) Since S represent the absent students. The question is How many went to the museum.

Then the expression that represents the absent students

is

5 classes of 23 students:

(23 x 5)

Minus the number of absent students, so:

(23x5)-s