there was a class with 744 students. the number of students who passed was 5 times of the students who failed. what’s the number of the students who passed and failed

Answer 1

Hi Gen,

You can solve this problem by creating an equation and solving it using inverse operations.

Let's use the variable x to represent the number of students who failed.

Then we can write the following expression for the number who passed: 5x

Since there was a total of 744 students, we can write the following equation to represent the situation:

Number of students who passed + number of students who failed = 744

5x + x = 744

Now combine like terms and use inverse operations to find x (or the number of students who failed)

5x + x = 744

6x = 744

6x/6 = 744/6

x = 124 students

124 students failed

The number of students who passed will be 5 times that or 5 x 124 = 620 students passed