Question

‘ 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 go 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.

Answer 1

As it says, set up the equation
7(x - 4) = 84

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.