Question

Twenty five football players chose to have their hair cut before winter break. If this represents 1/3 of the students on the football team, write and solve an equation to determine x, the number of students on the football team

Answer 1

Answer:

Equation for 'x' is $\frac{1}{3}x=25$.

There are 75 students in the football team.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the number of students on the team be 'x'.

Given:

Number of players to have hair cut = 25

Number of players to have hair cut is one-third of the total students in the football team.

So, framing in equation form, we get:

$\frac{1}{3}x=25$

In order to solve this equation for 'x', we have to isolate 'x' on the left hand side.

So, we multiply both sides by 3. This gives,

$3\times \frac{x}{3}=25\times 3\\\\x=75$

Therefore, there are 75 students in the football team.