A high school class is planning a field trip to an art museum in their city. The class collected a total of $1259 from all of the students, which will go towards renting a bus, museum admission, and lunch
However, a week before the trip 9 students had to drop out and their portion of the collected money had to be given back to them. Due to this, the students that are all still going must contribute an
Now let a be the number of students who went on the trip and s9 be the original number of students who had planned to go on the trip
What equation can be written to determine the number of students that went on this trip?