Question

PLS HELP.
Eight less than half the number of students in the freshman class have their own calculators. If 258 calculators are owned by freshmen, how many freshmen are there.

Answer 1

assuming each student can have at most one calculator, we get

\(\frac{1}{2}x-8=258\) where x is the size of the class.

do you see how I came up with this equation?

Answer 2

Yes :)

Answer 3

can you solve it?

Answer 4

Yes. thank you ;)

Answer 5

np