SOLUTION: 45% of the students in a class are girls and the number of boys exceeds the number of girls by 30. How many students are there in the class?

Question 984761: 45% of the students in a class are girls and the number of boys exceeds the number of girls by 30. How many students are there in the class?
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, vleith:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Substituting,

So then,

Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the total number of students be given by T
Let the number of girls be G and the number of boys be B
You are told

You are also told
You are asked to find T

now substitute in for G

Thats a huge class.
There are girls
There are boys
SO there are 30 more boys that girls
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