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  • 23-01-2022
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On a trip, there are 8 children and 1 adult per boat. If a total of 108 people went on this boat trip, how many were children? ​

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  • 23-01-2022
We don’t know how many children went on and we don’t know how many adults went on.

Since there are 9 people on each boat, we can divide 108 by 9 to tell us how many boats there are.

108/9 = 12

There are 12 boats, each with 8 kids and 1 adult.

8x12 = 96

There were 96 children
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