Hey. Let me help you on this one.
Let's break this problem down so it's easier for us to comprehend it.
There are 850 students in the school, and the amount of female students equals to the amount of male students + sixty additional females.
Amount of students in school = 850 students
Male students =

Female students =

Let's form an equation so we can work with what we have.

Subtract 60 from both sides.

Simplify

Divide both sides by 2.

Answer: There are 395 male students, and 455 female students.
Answer:
Well your question is a little unclear but say there is a bag of marbles containing 3 green marbles and 6 blue marbles then if you wanted to find the ratio of the green marbles it would be 3/9 or 1/3
A nickel is equal to 5 cents or 0.05 dollars.
A quarter is equal to 25 cents or 0.25 dollars.
Let number of nickels be = n
Let number of quarters be = q
...........(1)
As it is given, there are 3 more nickels than quarters so equation becomes,
................(2)
Plug in the value of 'n' from (2) in (1)

= 


As
we get, 
Hence, there are 12 nickels and 9 quarters.