There are 27 campers. This is nine times as many as the number of counselors. How many counselors are there?

There are 3 counselors

Answered by lizza | 2024-06-10

There are 3 counselors when there is 27 campers.
Let's call the number of counselors x. According to the problem, the number of campers is nine times the number of counselors. So, if there are x counselors, there are 9x campers.
Given that there are 27 campers, we can set up an equation:
9x = 27
To solve for x, we need to isolate it. We can do this by dividing both sides of the equation by 9:
9x ÷ 9 = 27 ÷ 9
This simplifies to:
x = 3
So, there are 3 counselors. To check our solution, we can substitute x = 3 back into the original equation:
9(3) = 27
Which is true, confirming that our solution is correct. Thus, there are 3 counselors.

Answered by misbaira | 2024-06-24

There are 3 counselors for the 27 campers, as the number of campers is nine times the number of counselors. To find this, we set up the equation 27 = 9x and solved for x. Dividing 27 by 9 gives us 3 counselors.
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Answered by lizza | 2024-09-26