SOLUTION: There where 196 students that participated and I clean up event at a nearby lake is one fourth of the entire student population right and solve an equation to find the number of st

Question 1013973: There where 196 students that participated and I clean up event at a nearby lake is one fourth of the entire student population right and solve an equation to find the number of students at the school
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if 196 students equal 1/4 of the student population, then the number of the students in the school is 196 / (1/4) = 196 * (4/1) = 196 * 4 = 784.

you would solve this algebraically by doing the following.

let x = number of students in the school.

since 1/4 of the student in the school is equal to 196, you get 1/4 * x = 196

multiply both sides of this equation by 4 to get x = 196 * 4

simplify by performing the multiplication to get x = 784

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