Question

HEEEELLLLLPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there is the same number of men and women on the city bus when it departs from the station.At Grubb Street,8 men get off the bus and nobody gets on.After the Grubb Street stop,there are twice as many women as men on the bus.How many women are on the bus?
A.4 B.6 C.8 D.12 E.16

Answer 1

CAN SOMEONE HELP ME AND SHOW ME HOW TO DO THIS

Answer 2

lets do this

Answer 3

Okay, well I already know what the answer is. For you, you'll have to figure it out by trial and error or through algebra. I tried setting this up with algebra but I ran into an issue, but anyway,

What you do is start with the answer you believe is correct. In this case, I propose that 16 is the answer. If 16 is the answer then there were 16 men and 16 women on the bus to begin with. Then 8 men got off the bus leaving 16 women and 8 men.

Answer 4

I messed up this explanation really bad but there ya go.

Answer 5

hmmm

Answer 6

Do you get it now or are you still lost?

Answer 7

im totally lost

Answer 8

did you added 8+8 since they said twice as many

Answer 9

Before Grubb Street Bus Stop:

16 women and 16 men

After Grubb Street Bus Stop: (after 8 men get off)

16 women and 8 men

There are twice as many women because 8 x 2 = 16

Answer 10

but hoe did you got 16

Answer 11

at first

Answer 12

From the answer choices. I started with 16 because it's the only one that is a "double"

Answer 13

other than 4, but 4 is too small

Answer 14

ohhhhhh i get you

Answer 15

actually 4, 8, and 16 are doubles.

Answer 16

6 too

Answer 17

But if you take away 8 you end up with 0 and you can't multiply 0 times anything and get "double"

Answer 18

Actually, all even numbers are doubles

Answer 19

2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
6 + 6 = 12
8 + 8 = 16

Answer 20

But 16 is the only one that works for this problem.

Answer 21

So lets say we picked 8
What would we get or do

Answer 22

there would be 8 women and 8 men then 8 men gets off but you cant do that becuase there will be no men am i correct

Answer 23

then 8x0=0
then that wouldnt work

Answer 24

I think you're getting the hang of it

Answer 25

im LOVING THIS....THANK YOU im sooo happy

Answer 26

it took me hours to figure this out

Answer 27

It shouldn't have :P

Answer 28

i know its that im getting ready for my SAT an these questions are soo hard,well some of them

Answer 29

That was an SAT question? Too easy.

Answer 30

I'm pretty sure the real ones will be more difficult.

Answer 31

Dude no its not

Answer 32

If it takes you hours to figure out that easy question, you should be worried.

Answer 33

hahahahahaha dude your making worried.

Answer 34

me

Answer 35

dude im terrible at math and your like a genious am i right

Answer 36

Yeah, because the SAT questions will be much more difficult

Answer 37

I wouldn't say genius. I'm just really good at figuring things out. You have to at least know up to pre-calculus level to take SAT Math.

Answer 38

how old are you BTW

Answer 39

Why do you want to know that? :P

Answer 40

dude just wondering but you dont have to answer my question its cool

Answer 41

like if you went college did you did good on your SAT. Bet you did