SOLUTION: one quarter of the pupils in jane's class are boys. find the fraction of the class who are girls if there are 60 pupils in the class. how many are boys

Algebra.Com
Question 746751: one quarter of the pupils in jane's class are boys. find the fraction of the class who are girls if there are 60 pupils in the class. how many are boys











Answer by Cromlix(4381)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If the one quarter of the class are boys,
then three quarters of the class are girls.
If there are 60 pupils in the class then
one quarter of 60 = 15 boys
1/4 x 60 = 15

RELATED QUESTIONS

In a class 60% of the pupils are boys. If there is 180 girls in the class how many pupils (answered by ewatrrr)
47% of all pupils in a class are boys what percentage of the class are girls (answered by fractalier)
The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 3:5.if there are 8 more girls than boys,how many (answered by 428225,Gogonati)
in a class the ratio of boys to girls is 3:2. If there are 11 more boys than girls,how... (answered by richwmiller)
In a class of 40 pupils, there are 24 boys and the rest are girls. How many percent more... (answered by Edwin McCravy)
The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 3:4.I f there are 42 pupils in class, how many... (answered by ikleyn)
3/5 of the pupils in a class are girls. There are 12 boys in the class. How many girls... (answered by josgarithmetic,stanbon)
Please can you help me solve this?: There are 850 pupils in a school. 415 of the pupils... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)
A class has 27 pupils of whom ‘x’ are boys. a) How many girls (in terms of x) are... (answered by fractalier,josmiceli)