there are 15 girls in a sixth grade class. only 40% of the class are boys. how many are in the class

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24-01-2017
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there are 15 girls in a sixth grade class. only 40% of the class are boys. how many are in the class

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Аноним Аноним · Answer 1 · 2017-01-24T05:26:52+01:00

Аноним Аноним

24-01-2017

There are 25 students in the class.

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Vimal1 Vimal1 · Answer 2 · 2017-01-24T05:29:34+01:00

Vimal1 Vimal1

24-01-2017

So since there are 40% boys, then 60% is girls
Let t represents total number of students
Then 60/100 × t = 15
t = 15/0.6 = 25

Therefore there are 25 students in the class.

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