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Algebra.Com's Answer #564891 by Edwin McCravy(20054)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! When 1/5 of the boys left, there were still b boys and g girls who stayed to see \n" ); document.write( "the end of the program. What was the total number of boys and girls at the beginning of the program? \n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "The problem doesn't say that any girls left, so we'll assume that no girls\r\n" ); document.write( "left, and so there were also g girls at the beginning of the program.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Let x = the number of boys at the beginning of the program.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Then we subtract one-fifth of x from x to get b boys: \r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " |