Asked by tyler

Seventy of Myra’s classmates are traveling by bus to a football game in another town. They hired 2 buses, but there were only 64 seats. The remaining 6 students had to travel in a separate van.

The equation 2b + 6 = 70 represents the given scenario. What does b represent?

the number of buses
the number of vans
the number of students who rode on each bus
the total number of students going to the football game

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
b represents the number of students who rode on each bus.

Reason: 2b is the number of students on the two buses, plus 6 in the van equals the 70 total. (So 2b = 64 and b = 32.)