Question

At the end of a baseball game, the players were given the choice of having a bottle of water or a box of juice. Of all of the players, 12 chose a bottle of water, which was 3/4 of the total number of players. Write and solve an equation to determine p, the total number of players at the baseball game.

Answer 1

Answer:

P = 12 × 3/4 is the right equation and total player is 16.

Answer 2

Given,

3/4 of the total number of players (p), that is 12 chose a bottle of water.

To find,

An equation to determine p,

Solution of the equation.

Solution,

Firstly, it is given here that the total number of players is p.

Also, 12 players out of the total p players chose a bottle of water.

Now, according to the question, 12 is $\frac{3}{4}$ of p.

This can be expressed in the form of an equation as,

$\frac{3}{4} p=12,$

which is the required equation.

The above equation can be solved simply by cross-multiplication as follows.

$p=\frac{12 \times 4}{3}$

⇒ $p=4 \times 4$

⇒ $p=16.$

⇒ The total number of players = p = 16.

Therefore, an equation to determine p, the total number of players at the baseball game will be $\frac{3}{4} p=12$, and its solution, that is the total number of players, p will be 16.