Question

In a school 5/8 of the students are boys if there are 240 girls find the number of boys in the school

Answer 1

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Given Data,

=> 5/8 if students are boys

=> 3/8 are girls

Let the total students be x

Then 3/8 of x = 240

=> 3x/8 = 240

=> x = 640

Thus Boys => 640 - 240

Thus number of boys = 400

Thus there are 400 boys in the school

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