Of the 36 students in the book club, five-ninths prefer adventure books to historical books. How many of the students in the book club prefer historical books?

You could draw it out such as: x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
Now you have nine groups of 4 which equals 36 Now 5/9 would be five of the nine groups. Each group have 4 students so 4 x 5 = 20 students like Adventure books. Then take 36 - 20 = 16, which means 16 students like historical books.

Answered by tlhuddle | 2024-06-10

You have to make a tape diagram and divide it in to 9 parts because it is 5 out of 9 then you will make a bracket pointing to only 4 parts of the tape diagram then you do 36/9 and it will equal 4 so put 4 in to each part and so 4 x 4 is 16 so the answer is 16 people prefer historical books

Answered by Soccergirl101 | 2024-06-10

In the book club of 36 students, 20 prefer adventure books, which means 16 students prefer historical books. The calculation shows that 5/9 of the students like adventure books. Therefore, the number of students who prefer historical books is 16.
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Answered by tlhuddle | 2024-12-26