Here is the answer to the given question above. Given that there are a total of 18 students and 5/9 of the students have pets, let us divide 18 by 9 to see how many students have pets. So the answer would be 2. Since it is 5 out of 9, we multiply 2 by 5 and we get 10. Therefore, the answer is 10 students. Hope this answer helps.