document.write( "Question 1062620: Please help me to solve the problem. In a school 720 are boys and 40% are girls. Find the number of girls?
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Please help me to solve the problem. In a school 720 are boys and 40% are girls. Find the number of girls?
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This is a SIMPLE, SIMPLE proportion problem.
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document.write( "As 40% (.4) are girls, 60% (.6) are boys, which also happens to be 720. 
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document.write( "With G being the number of girls, we have: 
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document.write( ".6G = .4(720) ------- Cross-multiplying
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document.write( "G, or number of girls = 
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document.write( "It's that SIMPLE....nothing COMPLEX and/or CONFUSING! \n" );
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