SOLUTION: A professor started a project with a group of students, 60% of whom were boys. Due to some unavoidable reasons, six girls could not turn up, so the professor had to make some chan

Question 3113: A professor started a project with a group of students, 60% of whom were boys. Due to some unavoidable reasons, six girls could not turn up, so the professor had to make some changes in the group. He admitted six boys. In doing so, the percentage of boys in the project increased to 75%. Find the number of boys and girls involved in the project initially.
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The ratio of boys to girls originally was 6/10.
Let x be the original number of boys.
Let y be the original number of girls.
Then
And

After six girls left, making y-6, he added six boys, making x+6.
The ratio was now 3/4.
Then
This becomes

Setting the expressions in x as equal gives

Putting this value in the first equation gives

So there were originally 24 boys and 16 girls, total 40.
24/40 = .6 = 60%
Later, after add/drop, there were 30 boys and 10 girls, total 40.
30/40 = .75 = 75%

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