SOLUTION: The ninth grade class has 17 more girls than boys.There are 431 students in all.How many boys are there?How many girls are there? Choices for number of boys:191, 202, 207.
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: The ninth grade class has 17 more girls than boys.There are 431 students in all.How many boys are there?How many girls are there? Choices for number of boys:191, 202, 207. This question is from textbook Algebra:Structure and Method
You can put this solution on YOUR website! First set some variables
Let's say boys = b and girls = g
Given that there are 17 more girls than boys we can show that as:
We are also given the total number of all students is 431 and so:
Now since we have established that we can subsitute b + 17 for
the g in which gives us this:
We now have an equation with only one variable to solve for
so lets solve for b:
b + b + 17 = 431
2b + 17 = 431
2b = 414
b = 207
Now that we have solved for b we can use that value to solve for g in
g = 207 + 17
g = 224
Finally we can check our answers by pluging them into
