Question

There are 96 children in a room.

40 of them are girls.
Find the fraction of the children that are boys.
Write your answer in its simplest form.
I will need it by this midnight

Answer 1

7/12

Explanation:

Basically to find the boys fraction I subtracted 40 from 96 and got 56. Your answer for the number of boys would be 56/96. I divided 4 from each and got 14/24. lastly I divide by 2 and got 7/12.