Question 971188: there are 5% more boys than girls at an art club.if there are 2 more boys than girls, how many children are there together? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Let represent the number of girls. Then the number of boys is either or . Set these two expressions equal to each other and solve for to find the number of girls. Then add 2 to find the number of boys. Add the number of boys to the number of girls, and presuming you don't have any transgender people in there messing up the calculation you should have your answer.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
