Question

60% students in a school are boys find the total number of students in a school if there are 240 girls in school

Answer 1

let the total no. of student be x
percentage of boys = 60%
percentage of girls = 100-60 = 40%
no.of girls = 40% of x
40% of x = 240
40/100×x = 240
240×100/40 = 600

Answer 2

Dear Student,

● Answer -

600 students

● Explaination -

Given that 60 % of students are boys. Then remaining 100-60 = 40 % students are girls.

Let x be total no students. Then no of girl students are -

No of girls = 40 % of x

240 = x × 40/100

x = 240 × 100 / 40

x = 600 students

Hence, there are total 600 students in the class.

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