If a classroom has 25 students and 8 of them are absent, how many students are present?
The word absent means not in class, so we subtract the 8 absent students from 25 to get:
25 - 8 = 17 students present
The word absent means not in class, so we subtract the 8 absent students from 25 to get:
25 - 8 = 17 students present