You are planning a scavenger hunt for 20 campers. you plan to have 5 teams. one camper for each team will be recorder and the rest will be searchers. how many searchers will each team have? write an equation to solve

Total number of campers = 20

Total number of teams = 5

⇒ Number of campers in each team = Total number of campers ÷ Total number of teams

⇒ Number of campers in each team = 20 ÷ 5

⇒ Number of campers in each team = 4

Number of recorders in each team = 1

⇒ Number of searchers in each team = Number of campers in each team - Number of recorders in each team

⇒ Number of searchers in each team = 4  - 1

⇒ Number of searchers in each team = 3

Hence, there will be 3 searchers in each team

the correct answer is the second option