Lee and fred are elementary school teachers. fred works for a charter school in pacific palisades, california, where class size reduction is a goal for 2013. lee works for a noncharter school where funds do not allow for class size reduction policies. lee’s fifth-grade class has 1.4 times as many students as fred’s. if there are a total of 60 students, how many students does fred’s class have? how many students does lee’s class have?

Fred’s class has 25 students.

Lee’s class has 35 students.

Step-by-step explanation:

You know that Lee’s fifth-grade class has 1.4 times as many students as Fred’s, then you can write the following expression:

Where L is the number of students that Lee’s class has and F  is the number of students that Fred’s class has.

You know that there are a total of 60 students, then you can write the following expression:

Substitute into the second equation and solve for F:

Then, L is:

250

step-by-step explanation:

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