Question

A problem states: "There are 5 more girls than boys at the party. There are 27 children at the party in all. How many boys are there at the party?"

Let b represent the number of boys.

Which expression represents the number of girls?




5−b

b + 5

b⋅5

b−5

Answer 1

The second one

Step-by-step explanation: 27-5=22 then u divide 22 divided by 2 and you get 11 then you add five girls to the 11 and you get 16 so there's 11 boys and 16 girls at the party which makes the equation 11+5=16 so the answer is number b (the second one).

Answer 2

b + 5

Explanation:

If there are 5 more girls and b represents boys, then adding 5 to b (boys) gives you the number of girls. Hope this helps!