Of the 60 students in a school, 24 are currently studying chemistry. Exactly 16 of the girls in the school are not currently studying chemistry. The number of girls in the school is 33. How many boys are currently studying chemistry?

Correct answer is 17. How did they get that?

Unclear Explanation: Careful! This is the number of girls in the class. If 16 girls are not studying chemistry, 17 are studying it, leaving 7 spaces in the class for boys.

I agree with you.

33-16 = 17girls

24-17 = 7

It may be a typo on the answer sheet.

Thankyou!!! I got it now.

To find the number of boys currently studying chemistry, we need to find the number of boys in the school and subtract the number of boys not studying chemistry.

We are given that there are 60 students in the school, and we know the number of girls is 33. The number of boys can be calculated by subtracting the number of girls from the total number of students:

Number of boys = Total number of students - Number of girls
Number of boys = 60 - 33
Number of boys = 27

We are also given that there are exactly 16 girls who are not currently studying chemistry. Since the number of girls in the school is 33, the number of girls studying chemistry can be calculated by subtracting the number of girls not studying chemistry from the total number of girls:

Number of girls studying chemistry = Number of girls - Number of girls not studying chemistry
Number of girls studying chemistry = 33 - 16
Number of girls studying chemistry = 17

Now that we know the number of girls studying chemistry is 17, we can conclude that the number of boys studying chemistry must be the remaining number of spaces in the class for boys:

Number of boys studying chemistry = Number of boys - Number of spaces for girls not studying chemistry
Number of boys studying chemistry = 27 - 16
Number of boys studying chemistry = 11

Therefore, the correct answer is that there are 11 boys currently studying chemistry.

To find the number of boys currently studying chemistry, we need to use the given information:

1. The total number of students in the school is 60.
2. Out of these 60 students, 24 are currently studying chemistry.
3. The number of girls in the school is 33.
4. Out of these 33 girls, 16 are not currently studying chemistry.

First, let's determine the number of girls currently studying chemistry.

Since there are 33 girls in total and 16 of them are not studying chemistry, we can subtract 16 from the total number of girls to get the number of girls studying chemistry:

33 - 16 = 17

So, we know that 17 girls are currently studying chemistry.

To find the number of boys studying chemistry, we subtract the number of girls studying chemistry from the total number of students studying chemistry:

24 - 17 = 7

Therefore, there are 7 boys currently studying chemistry.

The correct answer is 7.