Seventy of Myra’s classmates are traveling by bus to a football game in another town. They hired 2 buses, but there were only 64 seats. The remaining 6 students had to travel in a separate van.
The equation 2b + 6 = 70 represents the given scenario. What does b represent?
the number of buses
the number of vans
the number of students who rode on each bus
the total number of students going to the football game
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