5/8 that's how ratio of students that will buy lunch. so in order to find number students who will buy the lunch out of 720, just multiply 720 with 5/8 ie, 720x5/8 ie 450.
450 is answer
No, (9.5, 144) does not make sense because there is no point of 9.5 and when you divide the ounces of water by the flavoring packets you end up with 12, and if you were to simplify that it would end up with 1 flavor packet and 12 ounces of water.
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c.d. d=8-3=5

Call the price of the bike before mark up 'x', then we have:
x + 0.25x = 210
1.25x = 210
x = 168
Therefore, the bike cost $168 before 25% price increase.