Question

There are 40 players on Bill's football team, 2/5 of the players walk to practice and 1/4 of the players ride with their parents. The remaining players ride the bus. How many students ride the bus?

Answer 1

22 students.

Explanation:

There are a total of 40 players on the football team. 2/5 walk, 1/4 ride with their parents, and the rest ride the bus. To solve, I'm going to be using fractions to find out how many students ride the bus.

1/4 of 40 or 40/4 is equal to 10.

So we know 10 players ride with their parents.

2/5 of 40 or 40/5 is equal to 8.

Cool, 8 students walk to practice.

Now the rest ride the bus. Let's use addition to find the total amount of players that dont use the bus and subtract it from the total amount of players.

10+8=18

40-18=22.

22 students/players ride the bus to football practice.