Madeline has used 50 sheets of a roll of paper towels, which is 5/8 of the entire roll. The equation 5/8s = 50 can be used to find the number of sheets s in a full roll. Determine whether s = 32 or s = 80 is a solution of the equation, and tell what the solution means.

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11 July, 03:19

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Chace · Answer 1

5/8s=50

5s=50*8

5s=400

s=400:5

s=80

So the answer is s=80

And this means that there are 80 sheets total in 1 roll of paper towels.