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) On Monday, 501 students went on a trip to the zoo. All 9

buses were filled and 6 students had to travel in cars. How many students were

in each bus?

55 students were on each bus.

Step-by-step explanation:

The equation 501-6=9x can be used to solve this problem. The reason that 501 is being subtracted by 6 is because those 6 were not involved with riding the bus (they went in the cars). 9x would be used because x would represent how many kids where on all of the 9 buses.

First you want to add all like terms in the equation which will give you 495=9x next you want to get x by itself and divide by 9 on both sides so that you get 55=x. Since x stands for the amount of kids on each bus then 55 students were on each bus.

55

Step-by-step explanation:

Assume that every bus can transport the same number of students.

Six students had to travel in cars.

501-6=495

The rest (495 students) are equally divided into nine groups.

495/9=55

So we get 55 students in each bus.