Question

There are 36 boys on a school bus. If 60% of the students on the bus are girls, how many total

students are there? Use a proportion to solve.

Answer 1

54

Explanation:

First, we can discover that 40% of the class are boys

100-60=40

Second, we need to work out what ten per cent of the class is, which we get by dividing 36 by 4:

36÷4=9

9 is equal to ten per cent.

Then, we multiply this by 6 because 10×6=60, which is the percentage of girls in the class.

9×6=54

Therefore, we have 54 girls on the bus