SOLUTION: in a school 5/8 of the students are boys and the number of girls is 990, find the number of boys in the school

SOLUTION: in a school 5/8 of the students are boys and the number of girls is 990, find the number of boys in the school

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Question 446832: in a school 5/8 of the students are boys and the number of girls is 990, find the number of boys in the school
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If 5/8 of students are boys, then 3/8 must be girls
Let = total number of students

and

There are 1650 boys in the school
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