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in a school three fifths of the pupils were boys and there were 240 girls. How many boys were in the school?
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

How do you arrive at the answer of 360 please
By: yazz11

Date of comment: Sat, Jan 30th 2010

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