164k views
25 votes
1/3 of students at a school are boys. If there are 600 students, how many of them are girls?

1 Answer

9 votes

400

Step-by-step explanation:

1/3 of 600 is 200. That represents the boys.

Subtract 200 from 600, you get 400. That represents everybody else in the sample size (in this case, girls).

User Rasalas
by
3.7k points