Jack won 65 lollipops playing basketball. At school he gave four to every student in his math class He only had 1 left how many students are in his class

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Let's denote the number of students in Jack's math class as \( x \).

Jack started with 65 lollipops and gave 4 lollipops to each student, which totals to \( 4x \) lollipops. After giving away the lollipops, he had 1 left.

So we can set up the equation:

\[ 65 - 4x = 1 \]

Now, we can solve for \( x \):

  1. Subtract 1 from both sides:

\[ 65 - 1 = 4x \] \[ 64 = 4x \]

  1. Divide both sides by 4:

\[ x = \frac{64}{4} \] \[ x = 16 \]

Thus, there are 16 students in Jack's math class.