Fraction question
Question asked by: yazz11
Asked on: 06 Jan 2010
3/5 is boys and there are 240 girls.
This means that 2/5 of them are girls.
So 40% is 240.
So 60% is 360.
So there are 360 boys.
By: knowitall
Replied at: 06 Jan 2010
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3/5 are boys , so the remaining 2/5 are girls
Let X be the total number of students.
That means 2/5 of X = 240
(2/5)x X = 240
X = 240 x 5/2 = 600
3/5 of X are boys. So (3/5) X 600 = 360 boys
By: appuswathi
Date of comment: Wed, Jun 9th 2010
By: appuswathi
Date of comment: Wed, Jun 9th 2010
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