Question

At a school, there are 120 athletes. The ratio of boy athletes to girl athletes is 3:5. How many of the athletes are girls?

Answer 1

There are 75 girls because you add the ratio 3+5 = 8 then divide 120 by 8 to get 15 then there are 5 lots of girls so multiply 15 x 5 to get 75

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