SOLUTION: 300 chocolates are distributed equally among certain group of students if there are 10 more students 60 more chocolates would have been required what is original number of stud

Question 1000587: 300 chocolates are distributed equally among certain group of students if there are 10 more students 60 more chocolates would have been required what is original number of students ? a 40 b 45 c 50 d 55 e 60
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Try it this way:
THREE HUNDRED chocolates are distributed equally among certain group of students. If there are 10 more students, 60 more chocolates would have been required. What is original number of students ?

Let the original number of students be the quantity, p.
Chocalates per student originally is .

The hypothetical 10 more students requiring the assumed same ratio of chocolates per student:

should be the same as
.

.
That would be most of what you want to be able to arrange. After this, only the algebra steps to solve for p is needed.
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