SOLUTION: One quarter of the students at a high school take algebra. one fifth of the students take geometry. the remaining 110 students do not take any math. how many students are there in
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Question 305607: One quarter of the students at a high school take algebra. one fifth of the students take geometry. the remaining 110 students do not take any math. how many students are there in the school? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
You can only do this problem if you assume that there are no students who take both algebra and geometry at the same time. And you must assume that no one is taking trigonometry, analytic geometry, calculus, linear algebra, or any other mathematics subjects.
Let represent the number of students in the school. Always a good strategy to start out defining the variable as the thing you are asked for.
Now: [All of the students] is equal to [One-fourth of the students] plus [One-fifth of the students] plus the number of students not taking math (110).
