SOLUTION: the ninth grade class has 17 more girls than boys. there are 431 students in all. how many boys are there? How many girls are there?
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Question 335962: the ninth grade class has 17 more girls than boys. there are 431 students in all. how many boys are there? How many girls are there?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hint: Let b = # of boys and g = # of girls. So if "the ninth grade class has 17 more girls than boys", then (ie add 17 to the # of boys to get the # of girls). Also, because "there are 431 students in all", we know that
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