Question

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Donna teaches dance in groups of five students. She rents a hall for the dance classes at $450 per month. She charges $40 per hour per student. Donna teaches four groups of students, and her net earnings per month are $4,350.

Part A: If each student learns dance for the same number of hours, write an equation that can be used to calculate the number of hours each student learns dance in a month.

Part B: How many hours did each student learn dance each month? Show your work and justify each step.

Answer 1

Part A: First you need to find the amount of money Donna earns without the deduction for the rent. 4,350+450=4800.
Next you need to find how many students Donna has. She has four groups of five students, this means she has 20 overall students.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

kind of tricky wording but it's pretty simple.

the total is $4800 so...

Answer 4

your going to divide by by $40 as it is per student to get

Answer 5

120

Answer 6

120 hours , which must be divided by 5 to get 24 hours per student

Answer 7

part a:24 hrs

Answer 8

but there are four groups of five so that makes 20 students?

Answer 9

it says groups of 5

Answer 10

but there are four groups with five students in each...

Answer 11

still here? @dtan5457

Answer 12

yea. i think your right. i had to read that over again. case of 20 students.

120/20=6 hours per student

Answer 13

ok so what would the equation be?

Answer 14

$4800<base price

$4800/40=20x

Answer 15

120=20x

x=6

Answer 16

is there a way to put that all in one equation?

Answer 17

$4800/$40=20x

Answer 18

i just solved it

Answer 19

could you help me with another @dtan5457

Answer 20

ok tag me in the new question