three eights of the students in Ms. Dulls class ride the bus if there are 24 students in class how many students ride the bus explain how to use equivalent fractions to solve

Total no. Ratio

Ride the bus x. = 3

Total. 24 8 This creates a proportion where both fractions: x/24 and 3/8 are equivalent fractions.

Cross multiply: 8x = (3) (24)

Multiply: 8x = 72

Divide both sides by 8: 8x/8 = 72/8

Divide: x = 9 <-. The number of students who ride the bus