Question

1. the student council ordered 1000 pencils embossed with the school name to give to honor roll students. if they give each honor roll student two pencils and they have 840 pencils left after the first quarter, how many students are on the honor roll in the first quarter?

Explanation:

Step1: Find the number of pencils given out

The total number of pencils ordered is 1000, and the number of pencils left is 840. So the number of pencils given out is the total minus the remaining.
$1000 - 840 = 160$

Step2: Calculate the number of honor roll students

Each student gets 2 pencils. To find the number of students, we divide the number of pencils given out by the number of pencils per student.
Let $x$ be the number of students. Then $2x = 160$, so $x=\frac{160}{2}=80$

Answer:

80