In a survey of students, each student selected from a list of 10 songs the 2 songs that the student liked best. If each song was selected 5 times, how many students were surveyed?
A
96
B
48
C
32
D
25
E
18
Correct answer: D
Explanation
Each out of 10 songs was selected 5 times --> the total number of selections = 10*5 = 50.
Each student selected 2 songs --> the total number of students = 50/2 = 25.
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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