There is 7,000 female students, and 5,000 male students. Because, if there was 2,000 more female students then male, you have to find out what two numbers add up to 12,000. (Tip, to make it easier, take away the thousands, like 7+5)
ANSWER

or

We have

Since we cannot factor easily, we complete the square.
Adding 2 to both sides give,

Dividing through by 3 gives

Adding

to both sides gives

The expression on the Left Hand side is a perfect square.




Splitting the plus or minus sign gives

or
Ouch, kinda crippled w/o answer choices.
But with my calculating, i've made it out to be <span>92.07 %
Please do respond & rate based on my accuracy.
-Feeling confident-
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