Question 811619: a girl to boy ratio is 6 to 10. in a geometry class there are 30 girls, how many boys are there? Found 2 solutions by muhammad.khan, brysca:Answer by muhammad.khan(2) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A girl to boy ratio is 6 to 10. In a geometry class there are 30 girls, how many boys are there?
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To figure out how many boys there are if there are 30 girls, you divide 30 by 6 and you get 5. Now we can multiply the original ratio by 5. 6*5:10*5=30girls:50boys. Therefore there are 50 boys in the geometry class if there are 30 girls.
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Cheers,
Muhammad Khan
You can put this solution on YOUR website! This ratio can be shown as 3/5 also. (6/10=3/5)
Now, since there are 30 girls, you make this into a set of fractions that equal each other.
3/5 = 30/x
Now, 3*10 = 30, so you can multiply by 10 in the denominator as well. 5*10 = 50.
So there are 50 boys in the geometry class.
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