for every girl at the art school there is 3 boys.....if there is 236 students total...how many how many boys are taking classes at the school

Question

for every girl at the art school there is 3 boys.....if there is 236 students total...how many how many boys are taking classes at the school?

Answer 1

Hello, Sammy. 

 

Ok, the problem states that for every girl there are 3 boys.  So, in a class of 4 people, there will be one girl and three boys.  In a class of 8, there will be 2 girls and six boys, in a class of 12, there will be 3 girls and nine boys.  Now, one out of four is 25%.  So, the girls represent 25% of the class and boys represent 75%.  So, what you need to do is multiply the total number of students times the percentage that is made  up by boys.  This percentage must be represented as a decimal. So, this is what you have

(.75)(236)= 177 

 

There are 177 boys and 59 girls in the class.

 

I hope this helps out.  

 

D. Y. T.