SOLUTION: in a school 3/5 of the students are girls. if the number of boys in the school is 200 , find the total number of students in school
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Question 1107941: in a school 3/5 of the students are girls. if the number of boys in the school is 200 , find the total number of students in school
Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if 3/5 are girls then 2/5 are boys, then let x be the total number of students
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(2/5) * x = 200
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2x = 1000
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x = 500
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The total number of students in school is 500
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Note that (3/5) * 500 = 300 and 300 + 200 = 500
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