Question

School Jefferson high school has 100 less than 5 times as many students as taft high school write and evaluate an expression to find the number of students at Jefferson high school if Taft high school has 300 students ?

Answer 1

Jefferson High School has 100 less than 5 times as many students as Taft High School.

x is the number of students at Taft High School.

5x - 100

If Taft High School has 300 students,
5(300) - 100
1500 - 100
1400

Then Jefferson High School has 1400 students.