Question

Your class at school has 18 girls and 12 boys. If your school had the same ratio throughout the whole school and there are 2000 students in the school, how many total girls are in your school?

Answer 1

So, there are 1200 girls in the school.

Answer 2

The ratio of girls to boys in your class is 18 girls : 12 boys, or in fraction form 18/12 or 3/2.

If the school has the same ratio throughout, the ratio of girls to boys in the entire school is 3 girls to 2 boys.

To find the number of girls in the school, you can use the equation:

(number of girls) / (number of students) = (3 girls) / (5 students)

Cross-multiplying, we get:

(number of girls) = (3 girls) / (5 students) * (2000 students)

Simplifying, we get:

(number of girls) = 1200

So, there are 1200 girls in the school.