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64 children attended a computer course. 5/8 of them were girls. How many more girls than boys were there?
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64 children attended a computer course. 5/8 of them were girls. How many more girls than boys were there?

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there were a total of 28 more girls than boys.
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if the total is 64, to calculate the girls, just multiply 64 by 5/8, and you get 40 girls. so the number of boys is actually 8-5/8, which is 3/8, so in total there r 24 boys.
so 40 - 24 makes there r 16 more girls
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