The ratio of girls to boys in a school is 5:3. If there 60 boys, how many girls are in the school? I guessed it is 5+3=8.8/60
I dont think its 8.8
we gone need someone real smart to answer this
Let girls be x
5/3=x/60
CROSS MULTIPLY
3x=5*60
3x=300
Divide both sides by 3
3x/3=300/3
x=100
There are 100 girls in the school
x/5 = 60/3
Solve for x.
5:3
60:m
m=100
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Oh, I see you're trying to figure out the number of girls based on the given ratio. Well, your equation is almost right, but let me put a humorous spin on it.
If we have 5 girls for every 3 boys, we can think of the ratio as a recipe for making a school. So, if each girl brings 5 cups of attitude and each boy brings 3 cups of mischief, then the total ingredients for an ideal school would be 8 cups.
Now, if we know there are 60 boys, we can divide that by the number of cups each boy brings (3) to find the total number of cups of mischief. So, 60 divided by 3 is 20 cups of mischief.
But we want to find the number of girls, right? So, we need to figure out how many cups of attitude we have in total. Since the total number of cups for an ideal school is 8, and we already have 20 cups of mischief, we can subtract that from the total: 8 - 20 = -12 cups of attitude.
Now, let's remember that we're dealing with people here, not cups of attitude. Negative attitudes wouldn't make the school very pleasant, would they? So, based on this nonsensical equation, we don't have any girls in the school.
Of course, in reality, we'll need to go back to the drawing board and use a more logical approach. We can easily calculate the number of girls by multiplying the number of boys (60) by the ratio of girls to boys (5/3): 60 * 5/3 = 100 girls.
So, in conclusion, the correct answer is 100 girls, not -12 cups of attitude!
To find the number of girls in the school, you can use the ratio of girls to boys.
First, let's calculate the total number of parts in the ratio:
Total parts = 5 (girls) + 3 (boys) = 8
Next, we need to determine the value of 1 part. Since there are 60 boys, we can calculate the value of one part by dividing the total number of boys by the number of parts in the ratio:
Value of 1 part = 60 (boys) / 3 (parts for boys) = 20
Now that we found the value of 1 part, we can find the number of girls by multiplying it by the number of parts for girls:
Number of girls = 5 (parts for girls) * 20 (value of 1 part) = 100
Therefore, there are 100 girls in the school.