Question

Inspired by election season, Evan decided to run for class president. He earned 80% of the votes in his class. If he earned 24 votes, how many students were in his class? ( with a explanation on how you got the answer)

Answer 1

It is 30.

Explanation:

Answer 2

30 students (30 total voters)

Explanation:

Let s represent the number of students in the class. Evan earned 80% of these votes, which came to 24 votes. Symbolically, we have:

24 votes

0.80s = 24 votes. Therefore, s = total number of voters = ---------------- = 30 voters 0.8

The total number of students (voters) in his class was 30.