Question

Students surveyed boys and girls separately to determine which sport was enjoyed the most. After completing the boy

survey, it was determined that for every 3 boys who enjoyed soccer, 5 boys enjoyed basketball. The girl survey had a
ratio of the number of girls who enjoyed soccer to the number of girls who enjoyed basketball of 7:1. If the same
number of boys and girls were surveyed and 90 boys enjoy soccer, how many girls each sport?



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Answer 1

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1. for the boys, 3 soccer is 5 basketball (in a group of 8 students).
2. for the girls, 7 soccer is 1 basketball (in a group of 8 students)
3. the question mentions 90 boys like soccer, which means we increased the number of boys surveyed 30x, since 3 times 30 is 90. now, we need to increase the girl numbers by 30 as well, giving us 210 girls who like soccer for every 30 who like basketball.