The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 2:4. If there are 24 students total in the class, how many of them are boys?
2 Answers
There are
Explanation:
Firstly, we can simplify the ratio of boys to girls to
Then, to find out how many students each ratio represents, we add up
By dividing
So ONE ratio is equal to
For the girls, simply multiply
Check:
Explanation:
Multiply every number by
If two boys and four girls gives a class size of six, then keeping the
An easy way to think of it is in fractions
but
then you can just divide by
Just divide
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