document.write( "Question 600119: there are 25 children in the class: 3/5 of the children are boys. how many girls are in the class? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #379182 by godsgirls(5)\"\" \"About 
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This is actually pretty simple if you know how to create proportions and use cross-multiplication. I'll show you. \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "There are 25 children in the class. 3/5 are boys. How many are girls?\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Well, right away, we can see that if 3/5 are boys, then obviously, the other 2/5 are girls. So we write a proportion.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "There are 25 children in all. Therefore, 25 goes on the bottom. We know that 3/5 of those 25 are boys, but we only want to find the girls, so we'll use the 2/5 fraction here. \"x%2F25+=+2%2F5\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "now, we want to find x, because x tells us how many girls there are. We know that the fraction x/25 is equal to 2/5. But they need a common denominator. Therefore, by multiplying 2/5 by 5, we get 10/25 \"%282%2F5%295+=+10%2F25\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Here we've just proven that 2/5 equals 10/25. Therefore, there are 10 girls in the class of 25 students (and that means there are, by subtraction, 15 boys.)\r
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