Question

Mrs.Roland distributed a bag of skittles to her students.She gave each students five skittles , then ate the 8 that remained in the bag .If there was originally 143 skittles in the bag . How many students does she have ?

Answer 1

27 students.

Explanation:

Let x represent number of students.

We have been given that Mrs. Rolland distributed a bag of skittles to her students. She gave each students five skittles, then ate the 8 that remained in the bag.

The number of skittles given to x students would be
`5x`.

Since there was originally 143 skittles in the bag, so we can represent this information in an equation as:

`5x+8=143`

`5x+8-8=143-8`

`5x=135`

`(5x)/(5)=(135)/(5)`

`x=27`

Therefore, Mrs. Roland has 27 students.