Question

Riverside Elementary School is holding a school-wide election to choose a school color. Five-eighths of the votes were for blue, 5/9 of the REMAINING votes were for green, and the remaining 48 votes were for red.
a. How many votes were for blue?


b. How many votes were for green?


c. If every student got one vote, but there were 25 students absent on the day of the vote, how many students are there at Riverside Elementary School?


d. Seven-tenths of the votes for blue were made up by girls. Did girls who voted for blue make up more than, or less than half all votes? Support your reasoning with a picture (don't do it).


e. How many girls voted for blue?




ik that is a LOT of questions, but plz help me :(

Answer 1

A) 180 votes

b) 60 votes

c) 313 students

d) No, 7/16 of the people who voted were girls. 7/16 is less than 1/2.

e) 126 girls voted blue.