Question

A school has 1000 students. of these, 3/4 are boys. how many of the students are boys? how many of the students are girls?

Answer 1

750 are boys 1/4 are girls. 3/4 of 1000 is 750 and the remaining 1/4 are girls

Answer 2

750 students are boys, 250 are girls.

Explanation:

1/4 of 1000 is 250.

250 + 250 + 250 = 750 boys.

if 3/4 are boys, then 1/4 (the rest of the school population) are girls.

150 students are girls.