Problema Solution
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In one section of a VHS course, eight times as many students passed the final exam as failed it. If there were 36 students in the section, how many passed the exam?
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Let 'x' represent the number of students that passed the exam and let 'y' represent the number of students that failed the exam.
x + y = 36
x = 8y
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x = 32 students passed
y = 4 students failed
32 students passed the exam.