SOLUTION: Maria and her classmates are standing with other people in a line of 35 people waiting to buy tickets. Maria is last in this line of classmates and 20th from the front of the whole
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Question 1162403: Maria and her classmates are standing with other people in a line of 35 people waiting to buy tickets. Maria is last in this line of classmates and 20th from the front of the whole line. Maria's classmate leading the line of classmates is 23rd from the end of the whole line. How many classmates does Maria have?
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
For Maria, 20th from the front of the line means #20 in the line.
For her classmate, 23rd from the end of a line of 35 means there are 35-23 = 12 in front of her, which means she is #13 in the line.
If the question is really how many classmates Maria has, the answer is 20-13 = 7.
If the question is supposed to be how many students are in Maria's class, then the answer is (20-13)+1 = 8.
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