ms.reese class has 60 students , 1/4 of the students needed help for an upcoming test. if ms. reese equally divides the students that need help into 5 small groups , how many students are in each group?
1/4 of 60 students is (1/4)*60 = 15 students.
If Ms. Reese equally divides the students that need help into 5 small groups, then each group will have 15/5 = <<15/5=3>>3 students. Answer: \boxed{3}.
To find out how many students are in each group, we will divide the total number of students who need help by the number of small groups.
The total number of students who need help is given as 1/4 of the total number of students, which is 60 students.
1/4 of 60 students = (1/4) * 60 = 60/4 = 15 students.
Now, let's divide the 15 students into 5 small groups.
15 students / 5 groups = 3 students per group.
Therefore, there are 3 students in each small group.
To find out how many students are in each group, we need to first determine the number of students who needed help for the upcoming test.
Given that 1/4 of the students needed help, we can calculate this by multiplying the total number of students by 1/4:
Number of students needing help = (1/4) * 60 = 60/4 = 15
Now, we need to divide these 15 students into 5 small groups equally. To do this, we divide the number of students needing help by the number of groups:
Number of students in each group = Number of students needing help / Number of groups
= 15 / 5
= 3
Therefore, there are 3 students in each group.