Students in the sixth grade are raising money for an end of year camping trip. so far they have raised 240. this is 2/5 of the cost the trip. how much does the trip cost.

We want to write and solve a simple algebraic equation to see how much is the cost of the whole trip.

We will see that the total cost of the trip is $600.

First, we need to see what is the given information.

We know that at the moment, the kids raised a total of $240.

We also know that this is the 2/5 of the total cost.

Then if we define C as the total cost, we know that (2/5) times C is equal to $240, so we can write:

(2/5)*C = $240

Now we can solve this for C:

C = (5/2)*$240 = $600

The total cost of the trip is $600.

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