Question

Nathaniel's sister has 5/6 as many songs on her MP3 player as he has on his MP3 player. His sister has 35 songs. How many songs does Nathaniel have?

Answer 1

He has 42 songs on his mp3 player.

Answer 2

Answer:

42 songs.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the number of songs Nathaniel's has.

We have been given that Nathaniel's sister has 5/6 as many songs on her MP3 player as he has on his MP3 player. This means his sister has $\frac{5}{6}x$ songs.

We are also told that his sister has 35 songs. We can represent our given information in an equation as:

$\frac{5}{6}x=35$

Let us solve for x.

$\frac{6}{5}\cdot \frac{5}{6}x=\frac{6}{5}\cdot35$

$x=6\cdot 7$

$x=42$

Therefore, Nathaniel has 42 songs.