Answer:
3.5 yards
Step-by-step explanation:
The fraction of boys to total students would be 5/8
The fraction of boys to girls would be 5/3
Just replace x with whatever , and see if it works. If it works then it is a solution; otherwise it's not.
1^2 is not 2
(1/2)^2 isn't 2 either...
and so on