2 5 of a class were boys and the rest were girls. Find the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls in the class. In ratio
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boys:girls = 2:3
Apologies for the confusion. If 2 out of 5 students in a class are boys, then the ratio of boys to girls can be written as 2:3 or 2/3.
To find the ratio of boys to girls in the class, we need to determine the number of boys and the number of girls first.
We know that "2/5 of a class were boys." This means that if we divide the class into 5 equal parts, 2 parts would represent the boys. Mathematically, we can represent this as:
Number of Boys = (2/5) * Total Number of Students
Next, to find the number of girls, we need to subtract the number of boys from the total number of students. We can represent this as:
Number of Girls = Total Number of Students - Number of Boys
Finally, we can calculate the ratio of boys to girls by dividing the number of boys by the number of girls:
Ratio of Boys to Girls = Number of Boys / Number of Girls
To get the final answer, you need to provide the total number of students in the class.