Each student at Madison middle school owns three spiral notebooks. Mrs. Campbell wants to calculate the total number of notebooks in the middle school. What variable is needed to calculate the total?

A.
r, the number of students with red notebooks
B.
s, the number of students at the school
C.
t, the number of teachers who have notebooks
D.
n, the number of spiral notebooks per student

B. s, the number of students at the school.