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Seventy of Myra’s classmates are traveling by bus to a football game in another town. They hired 2 buses, but there were only 64 seats. The remaining 6 students had to travel in a separate van.The equation 2b+6=70 represents the given scenario. What does b represent?

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Seventy of Myra’s classmates are traveling by bus to a football game in another town. They hired 2 buses, but there were only 64 seats. The remaining 6 students had to travel in a separate van.The equation 2b+6=70 represents the given scenario. What does b represent?

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In the given equation, 2b + 6 = 70, 'b' represents the number of seats in each bus. This is because the total number of students traveling by bus is represented by 2b (2 buses times the number of seats in each bus), and when you add the 6 students traveling by van, the total is 70 students.

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