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Fifty students were eating lunch in the school cafeteria. The ratio of boys to girls was 25:25. Mrs. White asked Kym to explain what that ratio meant. Kym said it meant that 25% of the students in the cafeteria were boys.

Explain why Kym is incorrect.

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Answer:

Sample Response: The ratio of boys to total students was 25:50. Written as a fraction, this is 25/50. Rewrite the fraction with a denominator of 100 to 50/100. So 50% of the students were boys.

You might wanna change up some words so the teacher doesn't know your cheating lol

User Phil Ross
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Answer:

Kym is wrong because instead of 25% it would be 50 percent

Explanation:

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