Question

there are 176 people on the m15 bus travelling oto central park. There are 78 more on the m79 bus to central park than on the m15. Another 69 people are taking the subway to central park. How many people are traveling to central park?

Answer 1

We will solve as follows:

First, we will have that the expressions given in the problem are:

$b_{m15}=176$$b_{m79}=b_{m15}+78$$s=69$

&:

$n=b_{m15}+b_{m79}+s$

Now, we start by solving for bm79:

$b_{m79}=176+78\Rightarrow b_{m79}=254$

Now, we determine the total number of people going to Central Park:

$n=176+254+69\Rightarrow n=499$

So, there are 499 people going to Central Park.