Question

in a class 40 in a class of 48 students the number of boys is 3 by 5 of the number of girls find the number of boys and girls in the class

Answer 1

let the no. of girls be y then 3/5y+y=48 solve for y you will get y = 30 I.e. no. of girls is 30 and boys will be 48-30= 18