SOLUTION: An english class has 29 students enrolled. The number of girls in the class is one less than three times one half the number of boys. How many boys and how many girls are in the

SOLUTION: An english class has 29 students enrolled. The number of girls in the class is one less than three times one half the number of boys. How many boys and how many girls are in the

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Question 521895: An english class has 29 students enrolled. The number of girls in the class is one less than three times one half the number of boys. How many boys and how many girls are in the class?
Answer by geometryworm7271(30) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let b = boys
let 1/2bx3-1=girls
so
b+1/2bx3-1=29
2.5b-1=29
2.5b=30
b=12
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