Question

The Culver City Carnival had a face-painting booth. There were 8 times as many kids as adults who had their faces painted.

If 56 kids had their faces painted, how many people had their faces painted altogether?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Let X be the number of adults who had their faces painted.

Therefore, the number of kids who had their faces painted is 8*X.

Given that 56 kids had their faces painted, we can write an equation as:

8*X = 56

Solving for X:

X = 7

So, there were 7 adults who had their faces painted and 56 kids who had their faces painted.

Altogether, there were 7 + 56 = 63 people who had their faces painted.