SOLUTION: there are 990 pupils in a French school, if 1/9 of them are girls, how many boys are in the school?

SOLUTION: there are 990 pupils in a French school, if 1/9 of them are girls, how many boys are in the school?

Algebra.Com

Question 1065151: there are 990 pupils in a French school, if 1/9 of them are girls, how many boys are in the school?

Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
990*1/9 = 110 these are girls Subtract from 990 to get the boys.
RELATED QUESTIONS
two fifths of the pupils in a school are boys, if 150 are girls, how many pupils are... (answered by Cromlix)

there are 800 pupils in a school if 45% are girls how many boys are in the... (answered by greenestamps,ewatrrr)

two fifth of the pupils in a school are girls. if there are 150 boys, how many pupils are (answered by rfer)

There are 1200 pupils in a secondary school. The ratio if girls to boys is 5:7. How many... (answered by ewatrrr)

The ratio of boys to girls in a school is 2:3 there are 1100 pupils how many are girls (answered by Edwin McCravy)

There are 800 pupils in a school. 45% of the pupils are girls. Work out how many boys are (answered by ewatrrr)

There are 600 pupils in a school. The ratio of boys to girls in this school is 3:5. How... (answered by Fombitz,MathTherapy)

fifty eight of the population in a school are girls. if the total number of pupils are... (answered by JulietG,Alan3354)

the ratio of boys to girls is 4:5 there are 2250 pupils in the school How many are... (answered by TimothyLamb)