Question

Lorenzo and Nicole survey students about their favorite subject. Lorenzo surveys 24 students. This is 4 times as many as the 6 students that Nicole suverys. Write an equation that represents this situation

Answer 1

y = 4 * x

y is the number of students that Lorenzo surveys,

x is the number of students that Nicole surveys.

Explanation:

Lorenzo surveys 24 students, so we can use this value as the left side of our equation.

The number of students that Lorenzo surveys is 4 times as many as the number of students that Nicole surveys, that is 6. So, we use the value of 6 in the right side of the equation, and multiplied by 4 (the expression "4 times as many as" means that one value is the second one multiplied by 4)

The expression that represents this is:

24 = 4 * 6

If we use the variable y to express the number of students that Lorenzo surveys and x to express the number of students that Nicole surveys, we can write this equation:

y = 4 * x