Question

East High School has 540 students. There are 220 girls in the school. What is the ratio of girls to boys at East High School?

Answer 1

11/16

1) Gathering the data

540 students

220 girls

540-220= 320

320 boys

2) Let's find out the ratio of girls to boys

Placing the number of girls in the numerator, and subsequently the number of boys as the denominator

Then simplify :

So we can state there's a ration of 11/16

There are 11 girls to 16 boys in that school