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In a school, 5/8 of the students are boys. If there are 240 girls, find the number of boys in the school.​

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Answer:

400 boys

Explanation:

First use the fraction along with the given information (240 girls)

If 5/8 of the school are boys, then that means 3/8 of the school's students are girls. 3/8 happen to be equal to 240, which means we can conclude that 1/8 is equivilant to 240/3 = 80

80 multiplied by 5 = 400

There are 400 boys in the school. (640 total students in school)

Tip: Easy way to check answer is by putting the boys over the total students to find the ratio, and if it matches, your answer is correct. 400/640 = 0.625, which equals 5/8

Hope this helps :)

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