Look back at the plans these students used to solve the word problem below. Who found a correct solution?

Question

The entire school of 250 students went to the soap box derby. The math club went in two vans, and each van holds 6 students. How many students from the math club went to the derby?

Lloyd says: "Add the students in both vans together. Since 6+6 = 12, twelve math club students attended."



Albert say: " Multiply the total number of students at the school by two. 250 x 2 = 500 so 500 students from math club went."

Look back at the plans these students used to solve the word problem below. Who found a correct solution?

The entire school of 250 students went to the soap box derby. The math club went in two vans, and each van holds 6 students. How many students from the math club went to the derby?

Lloyd says: "Add the students in both vans together. Since 6+6 = 12, twelve math club students attended."



Albert say: " Multiply the total number of students at the school by two. 250 x 2 = 500 so 500 students from math club went."

Albert

Lloyd

Answer 1

Neither Albert nor Lloyd found a correct solution to the problem.

Lloyd correctly calculates the number of students in the two vans (6 + 6 = 12), but he doesn't understand that he should simply multiply the number of vans by the number of students each van can hold instead of adding them.

Albert incorrectly suggests that multiplying the total number of students in the school (250) by 2 to find the number of math club students is the right approach. This calculation has no relevance to the problem, which only mentions that the math club used two vans.

To find the correct solution, we need to multiply the number of vans (2) by the number of students each van can hold (6):

2 vans × 6 students/vans = 12 students in the math club went to the derby.

Thus, the correct answer is 12 students from the math club attended the derby.

Answer 2

Look back at the plans these students used to solve the word problem below. Who found a correct solution?

The entire school of 250 students went to the soap box derby. The math club went in two vans, and each van holds 6 students. How many students from the math club went to the derby?

Lloyd says: "Add the students in both vans together. Since 6+6 = 12, twelve math club students attended."



Albert say: " Multiply the total number of students at the school by two. 250 x 2 = 500 so 500 students from math club went."

Look back at the plans these students used to solve the word problem below. Who found a correct solution?

The entire school of 250 students went to the soap box derby. The math club went in two vans, and each van holds 6 students. How many students from the math club went to the derby?

Lloyd says: "Add the students in both vans together. Since 6+6 = 12, twelve math club students attended."



Albert say: " Multiply the total number of students at the school by two. 250 x 2 = 500 so 500 students from math club went."

Albert

Lloyd

Answer 3

Lloyd found the correct solution.

Lloyd calculated the total number of math club students who went to the derby by correctly adding the number of students in both vans: \(6 + 6 = 12\).

Albert, on the other hand, incorrectly multiplied the total number of students at the school (250) by 2, leading to the incorrect conclusion that 500 students from the math club went, which does not make sense in the context of the problem.

Therefore, the correct answer is Lloyd.