Question

A teacher is planning a class trip to the aquarium. The aquarium requires 2 chaperones for every 15 students. The teacher plans accordingly and orders a total of 85 tickets. How many tickets are for chaperones, and how many are for students?

Answer 1

75 student tickets and 10 chaperone tickets

Explanation:

First find out how many groups there are total by dividing 85 by 1 group total of 17 (15 students 2 chaperones).

85 / 17 = 5

Since you now know there are five groups of 15 students and 2 chaperones all you have to do is multiply 5 time 15 students and 5 times 2 chaperones.

15 x 5 = 75 for students

5 x 2 = 10 for chaperones