There are 240 people at the park for the soccer games. There are 150 fans. The rest of the people are on 6 soccer teams. Each team has an equal number of players. How many players are on each soccer team? a. Write an equation to represent this situation. Use a letter for the unknown quantity. b. Solve the problem. Explain or show your reasoning.

Let's break it down! First, we need to find out how many players are on the soccer teams. Since there are 240 people in total and 150 of them are fans, we can find the number of players by subtracting the fans from the total: 240 - 150 = 90 players. Now, these 90 players are spread out evenly among 6 teams. To find out how many players are on each team, we divide the total number of players by the number of teams: 90 ÷ 6 = 15. So, each team has 15 players! As for an equation to represent this situation: Let \( p \) be the number of players on each team. Then, the equation would be 6p = 90. To summarize, 6 teams with 15 players each makes for a full, lively park atmosphere with everyone enjoying the soccer games!