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The middle school band has a boy to girl ratio of 4:6.

The band had 20 members last year and 25 members this year.
How many girls and how many boys are in the band in each of these two years?

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4x+ 6x= 45
10x= 45
x= 4,5
girl= 6*4,5= 27