Question

There are 3 times as many students on the track team as on the soccer team. There are 8 students on the soccer team. write an equation to represent the number of students.

Answer 1

The Solution:

Let the number of students in the soccer team be x, and that in the track team be 3x.

There are 8 students in the soccer team. This means that

`x=8`

We are to write an equation to represent the number of students.

`\text{ Total number of students = 3x + x}`

Therefore, the correct answer is 3x + x.