Step-by-step explanation: To get the boys part of the ratio you will have to subtract 30 students and 14 students that are girls because all together there are 30 students and since we only know that 14 of them are girls that leaves the rest of the students boys. 30 - 14 = 16 so now we know how many boys there are. 16:14 can be reduced by 2 and that equals to 8:7.