Question

The ratio of boys to girls in a class is

3:4. If there are 28 students
altogether in the class, how many of
them are girls?

Answer 1

16 girls.

Explanation:

Ignoring for a second the strict gender binary here, let's break down what this problem is telling us. A ratio of 3 boys to 4 girls means that for every 3 + 4 = 7 students, 3 are boys and 4 are girls. A class of 28 students is 4 times bigger than 7, so we can multiply each number in the ratio by 4 to get the count for this larger class. Doing that math, we find 3 · 4 = 12 boys and 4 · 4 = 16 girls.

Answer 2

16 students are girls since 3+4 is 7 and 7*4 is 28. With this you multiply 4 by 4 since it is boys to girls and you will get 16 which is the answer.