SOLUTION: there are 12 girls and 15 boys in a classroom. what fraction of the students are boys and I need to know how to find the answer

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Question 797299: there are 12 girls and 15 boys in a classroom. what fraction of the students are boys and I need to know how to find the answer
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The fraction of boys is the number of boys divided by the total number of people. So long as you don't have any transgender issues going on here, that would be the sum of the boys plus the girls.

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