Question

Rafael needs to memorize words on a vocabulary list for German class. He has memorized 30 of the words, which is five-sixths of the list. How many words are on the list? Please and thank you :)

Answer 1

There are 36 words in the list

Answer 2

If you would like to know how many words are on the list, you can calculate this using the following steps:

5/6 of the words on the list is 30 words
5/6 * x = 30 /*6
5 * x = 30 * 6 /5
x = 30 * 6 / 5
x = 36 words

Rafael needs to memorize 36 words on the vocabulary list for the German class.