Saturday, August 10, 2013

ratio between boys to girls is 7:5 and there are total 60 students.how many more boys are there than girls?

b/g=7/5 so that b=(7/5) g
and
b+g=60 so that (7/5) g + g = 60 

g=25 (so b=35) 
that means there are 10 more boys than girls 

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