SOLUTION: in a sixth grade class, the ratio of boys to girls is 3:2. How many boys and how many girls could there be in this class? Is there more than one possible answer?

Question 834998: in a sixth grade class, the ratio of boys to girls is 3:2. How many boys and how many girls could there be in this class? Is there more than one possible answer?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is indeed more than one possible answer. The ratio means that for every boys in the class, there are girls.
Let be the number of in the class, the number of .
The ratio tells us that , than .
Now, observe that both and must be or or ).
So, what number could be any positive integer in order for to make sense? It will be any number that is divisible by three because it doesn't make sense if you get a decimal number as a result for .
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