A class has 27 students. Fifteen are boys and the rest are girls. What is the ratio of girls to total students?
A. 12:15
B. 15:12
C. 27:12
D. 12:27
Is the answer A?
Can confirm, 12:27 was correct!
Oh ok, maybe D?
Yes. D is right.
Thank you
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To find the ratio of girls to total students, you need to know the number of girls in the class. Since the question states that there are 27 students in total and 15 are boys, you can find the number of girls by subtracting the number of boys from the total number of students:
Number of girls = Total number of students - Number of boys
= 27 - 15
= 12
Now that you know there are 12 girls in the class, the ratio of girls to total students is 12:27. So, the correct answer is option D.
No.
Reread the question.