Question

Seventy of Myra’s classmates are traveling by bus to a football game in another town. They hired 2 buses, but there were only 64 seats. The remaining 6 students had to travel in a separate van.

The equation 2b + 6 = 70 represents the given scenario. What does b represent?

the number of buses
the number of vans
the number of students who rode on each bus
the total number of students going to the football game


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Answer 1

The answer C

Explanation:

Answer 2

The number of students who were on each bus

Explanation:

• Notice there are 70 students, and 70 is the sum of the equation
• We know 6 students weren't on either bus
• The remaining students must represented by 2b
• So if 2b is all the students who got on buses b is half that, representing each group of students per bus