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Question 1161209: There are twice as many girls than boys in a class.
Altogether there are 24 children in the class.
How many boys are in the class?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39629)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If "AS" instead of "THAN", then 16 girls and 8 boys
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