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Question 995842: ratio of boys and girls in a class is 5:3 which cannot be the number of students in the class ?
Answer by ptaylor(2198) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Any number that cannot be divided by 8
Ratio of boys and girls in a class is 5:3 means that out of every(5+3)=8 students, 5/8 are boys and 3/8 are girls:)
Hope this helps---ptaylor
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