Mr. Brokaw's class has 60 students, 1/4 of the students needed help for an upcoming test. if Mr. Brokaw equally divides the students that need help into 5 small groups, how many students are in each group?
A. 15
B. 12
C. 3
D. 5
To find the number of students in each group, we need to find 1/4 of the total number of students in Mr. Brokaw's class.
1/4 * 60 students = 15 students
Therefore, there are 15 students in each group.
So, the answer is A. 15.
To find the number of students in each group, we first need to determine how many students needed help for the upcoming test.
Since 1/4 of the students needed help, we can calculate the number of students who needed help by multiplying the total number of students (60) by the fraction 1/4:
Number of students needing help = 60 * 1/4 = 60/4 = 15
Now that we know that 15 students needed help, we can divide them equally among 5 small groups:
Number of students in each group = Number of students needing help / Number of small groups = 15 / 5 = 3
Therefore, there are 3 students in each group.
The correct answer is C. 3.
To solve this problem, we need to find 1/4 of the total number of students in Mr. Brokaw's class.
1/4 of 60 students = (1/4) * 60 = 60/4 = 15.
Now, we need to divide the students that need help into 5 small groups.
15 students ÷ 5 groups = 15/5 = 3.
Therefore, there are 3 students in each group.
So, the answer is C. 3.