‘ it costs per person to skate at a roller rink A group pays a total of for i i skating people canceled because they could not g
o To find how i many people were originally going skating you can set up the equation I = 84, where x is he number of original skaters Drag steps of the ‘ solution into order to solve for x.
the parentheses mean you multiply, so it is really 7 × (x - 4) = 84 Now, find how many people are left after the 4 people canceled84 ÷ 7 = 12 There are 12 people Now, add the 4 people that canceled 12 + 4 = 16
Answer:
x =16 people There was 16 people originally going skating.
