There are 18 fewer bus riders than walkers. There are 6 walkers. How many students ride the bus?

6 - 18 = -12

Impossible.

You must have made an error in your problem.

I think the question was misprinted. I just can't figure out how to write an equation for it.

Thanks

If we assume there are 18 fewer walkers than bus riders, and there are 6 walkers, then if we let x be the number of riders, then

x - 18 = 6

To find out how many students ride the bus, we need to determine the number of bus riders.

We know that there are 18 fewer bus riders than walkers, and since there are 6 walkers, we can calculate the number of bus riders by subtracting 18 from 6.

6 walkers - 18 = -12

However, we cannot have a negative number of bus riders in this context, so it is not possible for there to be -12 bus riders.

Thus, we can conclude that there are no students riding the bus, as the given information does not provide a positive number of bus riders.