Lake Snider High School surveyed its student population about if they prefer pizza or sushi. The students who prefer pizza represent twenty-seven fewer students than five times the number of students who prefer sushi. If 1,528 students prefer pizza, how many students prefer sushi?

311 students

Step-by-step explanation:

Let s represent the number who prefer sushi

Let p represent the number who prefer pizza

Five times the number who prefer sushi = 5s

27 fewer than (5s) = 5s - 27

P = 5s - 27

1,528 = 5s - 27

1,555 = 5s (add 27 to both sides)

311 = s (divide both sides by 5)