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Question 217468: A school bus holds 57 students but is only 40% full. How many students are on the bus? How do I make this into an equation? Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! .4 * 57 = 22.8 students are on the bus.
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22.8 is not possible. You would have to make some adjustment to say that you will either round up or round down or you will round to the nearest integer.
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Your equation would be:
y = number of students on the bus = % of students on the bus * capacity of the bus.
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With 40%, your equation would be:
y = .4 * 57 = 22.8 that would make the number either 22 or 23 depending on your rounding logic.
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