Thare are 48 students in a school play. The ratio of boys to girls is 5 : 7 How many more girls then boys are in the play? How do you get this answer?

Answer 1

For this question, let us set the number of boys to X and number of girls to Y

Boys: x

Girls:  y

From the text of the task:

Replacing x:

So there are 28 girls and 20 boys