There are 16 boys in an English class of 28 students. The ratio of boys to the total number of students in this class is typical of the whole school. There are 476 students in the school. About how many are boys?
Proportions In Word Problems
—In the picture, when I wrote at the top: “B” is for the boys in the equation and the “S” is for the students in the English class, if anyone was wondering what that meant—