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Members of a flying club plan to share equally the cost of a $200,000 airplane. The members want to find five more people to join the the club so that the cost per person will decrease by $2000. How many members are currently in the club?

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Using a model equation for the world problem, this solution determines step by step how many people are in a club.

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Let's call the current number of people in the club "x". That means that the current cost per person is 200000/x. If they find 5 more people to join the club, the new price per person will be 200000/(x + ...

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