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There are 40 students in Mrs. Rusczyk's first grade class. if there are three times as many students with blond hair as with blue eyes, 3 students with blond hair and blue eyes, and 15 students with neither blond hair nor blue eyes, how many students have blue eyes?

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by solving a system of equations, we conclude that there are 7 students with blue eyes in the class.

How many students have blue eyes?

We know that there are 40 students in the first-grade class, and we also know that:

Let's define the variables.

  • B = number of students with blue eyes.
  • H = number of students with blond hair.

We know that:

H = 3*B

We also know that there are 3 students that have both blue eyes and blond hair.

And there are 15 students with none of these traits, so:

40 - 15 = 25

There are 25 students that have blue eyes, blond hair, or both.

Because we know that 3 students have both traits, we can write:

B + H - 3  =25

(Where we subtract 3 because we don't want to add these students twice).

Then we created a system of two equations:

H = 3*B

B + H - 3  =25

Replacing the first equation into the second one, we get:

B + (3*B) - 3 = 25

4*B = 25 + 3 = 28

B = 28/4 = 7

Then, by solving that system of equations, we conclude that there are 7 students with blue eyes in the class.

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