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"There are 385 surfers in sufr City. two thirds of the boys are surfers and one-twelfth of the girls are surfers. if there are two g
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"There are 385 surfers in sufr City. two thirds of the boys are surfers and one-twelfth of the girls are surfers. if there are two girls for every boy, then how many boys and how many girls are there in surf city??
This question is from textbook intermediate algebra
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
assume there are boys and girls
where represents the number of boy surfers, and represents the number of girl surfers
and
(two girls for every boy)
then:
...number of boys
...number of girls
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