Answer: 140 kids can attend.
Explanation:
- Find the Unit rate of how many kids per one adult. With the ratio of
we can find out that for every one adult, theres 8.75 kids. - However, one can not really have ".75" of a kid, and rounding altogether would not make our numbers any more applicable, since there are only so many adults for so many kids.
- Do 8.75*16 to find out that 140 kids can attend with the supervision of 16 adults at the school event. Since 140 is an even number, there are no further calculations.