SOLUTION: high school graduating class is made up of 466 students. There are 212 more girls than boys. How many boys are in the class?

Question 685: high school graduating class is made up of 466 students. There are 212 more girls than boys. How many boys are in the class?
Answer by liz_gcmama(8) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's make the number of girls g and the number of boys b.

There are 212 more girls than boys so:

If we substitute this value for g into the first equation we get:

Get rid of the brackets:

Add like terms:

Subtract 212 from each side:

Divide by 2:

So the number of boys in the class is 127.
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