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Question 849730: A group of students attend a math club. Half of the students are boys and 4/9 of the boys have brown eyes. What fraction of the group are boys with brown eyes? Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A group of students attend a math club. Half of the students are boys and 4/9 of the boys have brown eyes. What fraction of the group are boys with brown eyes?
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Let # of students be 2x.
Then # of boys is "x".
Boys with brown eyes = (4/9)x
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Fraction of whole group that are boys with brown eyes = (4/9)/(2x)
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= (4/9)/2 = (2/9)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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