Question

There are 238 juniors at a high school. The ratio of girls and boys in the junior class is 3 : 4. How many juniors are girls? How many are boys?

Answer 1

There is 102 juniors are girls and 136 juniors are boys.

Answer 2

To figure this out, you would have to determine how much three quarters is of 238...

So 238 divided by 4 is 59.5.
Then 59.5 times 3 is 178.5.
But 178.5 can't be the answer because there can't be half of a girl in the school. So we would round up and conclude that there are 179 junior girls in the school.

Next, we determine how many junior boys there are.
238 minus 179 is 59.

There are 179 girls and 59 boys in the juniors at school.