Twenty five football players chose to have their hair cut before winter break. if this represents 1/3 of the students on the football team, write and solve an equation to determine x, the number of students on the football team

Equation for 'x' is .

There are 75 students in the football team.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the number of students on the team be 'x'.

Given:

Number of players to have hair cut = 25

Number of players to have hair cut is one-third of the total students in the football team.

So, framing in equation form, we get:

In order to solve this equation for 'x', we have to isolate 'x' on the left hand side.

So, we multiply both sides by 3. This gives,

Therefore, there are 75 students in the football team.