Question

60 percent students in school are boys. find the total number of students in school if 120 are girl

Answer 1

60% students in a school are boys.find the total number of students in school if 120 are girls.

if 60% are boys, then 40% must make up the girls.

Let x = total number of students

then

40 x = 120

x = 120/.40

x = 300 students