Question

there arre 221 students on a fiel trip five students ride in a van the rest of the students fill the 6 buses enter an equation that can be solved to find the numbers of students, S, that are on each bus. Enter the numbers of students that are on each bus.

Answer 1

According to the question statement, the total sum of students is 221, which includes the students that ride on bus and the students that ride in a van.

The students that ride in a van are five, the students that ride on bus are 6 times s which is the product of the number of buses and the number of students that are on each bus.

Write all this information into an equation, this way:

$6s+5=221$

Now, solve the equation for s to find the number of students that are on each bus.

$\begin{gathered} 6s+5=221 \\ 6s=216 \\ s=\frac{216}{6} \\ s=36 \end{gathered}$

There are 36 students on each bus.