Question

A small school had 60% boys and the rest are girls if the number of boys is 48 what is the total number of boys and girls all together in the school

Answer 1

Hey there!

When dealing with percent word problems, the word "is" means equals. Let's see what we can do with your problem.

If the small school had 60% boys, it will have 40% girls. The number of boys is 48, which should equal 60% of the total, which we can model below, with t representing the total number of kids. In decimal form, 60% is 0.6.

0.6t=48

We divide both sides by 0.6.

t=80

Therefore, there are 80 total kids at the school.

We can also check our answer below.

BOYS: 0.6(80)= 48

GIRLS: 0.4(80)=32

48+32=80

I hope that this helps!