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A tennis team has 24 members. There are twice as many girls as boys on the team. How many girls are on the tennis team? 6 girls 8 girls 12 girls 16 girls

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There are 16 girls.

User Michael Meister
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Answer:

16 Girls

Explanation:

Let x be the number of boys.

Let y be the number of girls.

So we know that:

y = 2x

y + x = 24

We can get the answer through substitution. Since we know that y = 2x, we can insert that into our second equation by replacing the y with the equation we came up with for y in the first equation.


y + x = 24


2x + x =24


3x =24


x =(24)/(3)


x =8

With that, we insert that answer into our first equation:

y =2x

y = 2(8)

y = 16

So there are 16 girls.

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