The senior classes at High School A and High School B planned separate trips to the water parks. The senior class at High School
A rented and filled 8 vans and 9 buses with 276 students. High School B rented and filled 1 van and 9 buses with 192 students. Each van and each bus carried the same number of students. How many students can a van carry? How many students can a bus carry?
A van can carry <u>12 people</u> and a bus can carry <u>20 people.</u>
<h3>EXPLANATION</h3>
School A needed 7 more vans to carry 84 more students than School B. This means that we need to do 84 ÷ 7 = <u>12 students per van.</u>
To find the amount of students per bus, we need to take the 12 people on the van from School B's 192 to get 180. We then do 180 ÷ 9 = <u>20 people per bus.</u>