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Answer 1 · 2018-02-03T04:46:00

$354$ males and $431$ females.

Let's assume the number of male students is $x$ . Therefore if there are $77$ more females than males, the number of females is $x + 77$ .

The total number of students is number of male $+$ number of female students.

Therefore, the total number of students is

$x + x + 77 = 785$

So

$2x + 77 = 785$

Subtracting $77$ from both sides gives us

$2x = 708$

Dividing both sides by $2$ gives us the value of $x$ , which is $354$ .

Therefore, there are $354$ males and $431$ $(354 + 77)$ females.