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In Mathematics / High School | 2014-03-14

The ratio of boys to girls in the ninth grade is 6:5. If there are 185 girls in the class, how many boys are there?

Asked by Mariodarden

Answer (3)

There is 222 boys and 185 girls

Answered by louiesamaan | 2024-06-10

There are 222 boys in the class. You find this by dividing 185 by 5 which gets you 37, so you have to multiply the 6 by 37 to find the amount of boys.

Answered by nickel | 2024-06-10

There are 222 boys in the class based on the ratio of boys to girls being 6:5. Given that there are 185 girls, we calculated the number of boys by first determining the value of one part in the ratio. Multiplying this value by the number of parts for boys yielded the total number of boys in the class.
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Answered by louiesamaan | 2025-02-21