Question

28. At the end of a baseball game, the players were given the choice of having a
bottle of water or a box of juice. Of all of the players, 12 chose a bottle of water which was 3/4 of the total number of players. Write and solve on equation to
determine p, the total number of players at the baseball game.
Show your work.

Answer 1

By solving the equation the total no. of students comes out to be p=48.

what is an equation?

• Equations contain mathematical statements with two algebraic expressions flanking the equals (=) sign on either side.
• It demonstrates the equality of the relationship between the expressions printed on the left and right sides.
• We have LHS = RHS (left hand side = right hand side) in every mathematical equation.
• To determine the value of an unidentified variable that represents an unknown quantity, equations can be solved.

Player count overall = p

Considering the above instance

$p - 12 = 3/4p$

By condensing

putting constants on the right and p on the left in terms

$p - 3/4p = 12$

Making the denominators the same by using LCM for the left side and solving the equation,

$4/4*p -3/4p = 12(4p -3p)/4 = 121p/4 = 12$

By dividing both sides by 4, we obtain.

$p = 12 * 4p = 48$

so, there are 48 players overall.

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