Question

Three eights of the students in Ms. Mull’s class ride the bus. If there are 24 students in the class, how many students ride the bus? Explain how to use equivalent fraction to solve.

Answer 1

9 students. Write a fraction equality like: 3/8 = s/24. (S represents students) to get 8 equal to 24, you have to multiply it by 3, so you multiply the fraction 3/8 by 3 on the numerator and the denominator to get: 9/24