Answer: 409.6
Step-by-step explanation:
Let the total number of sixth grade students be represented by x.
We are further told that 5/8 of the sixth grade students at clearview middle school buy their lunch which was about 256 students. We can represent this into an equation as:
5/8 × x = 256
0.625x = 256
x = 256/0.625
x = 409.6
