SOLUTION: In a school there are 0.8 strength of boys and 150 are girls. find the total no of boys?

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Question 893580: In a school there are 0.8 strength of boys and 150 are girls. find the total no of boys?
Answer by Simnepi(216) About Me  (Show Source):
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Because 0.8 = boys, then 0.2 = girls.
So, 0.2 = 150(the number of girls)
Therefore 0.1 = 75
So number of boys = 8*75 = 600.