Question

Mrs.Roland distributed a bag of skittles to her students.She gave each students five skittles , then ate the 8 that remained in the bag .If there was originally 143 skittles in the bag . How many students does she have ?

Answer 1

Answer:

27 students.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent number of students.

We have been given that Mrs. Rolland distributed a bag of skittles to her students. She gave each students five skittles, then ate the 8 that remained in the bag.

The number of skittles  given to x students would be $5x$.

Since there was originally 143 skittles in the bag, so we can represent this information in an equation as:

$5x+8=143$

$5x+8-8=143-8$

$5x=135$

$\frac{5x}{5}=\frac{135}{5}$

$x=27$

Therefore, Mrs. Roland has 27 students.