The ratio of girls to boys in a school is 5:3. If there are 60 boys, how many girls are in the school?
Let's use algebra to solve the problem.
Ratio of girls to boys = 5:3
Let's also assume that the number of girls is 5x and the number of boys is 3x. Then we know that:
3x = 60 (since there are 60 boys)
Solving for x:
x = 20
Now we can find the number of girls:
5x = 5(20) = 100
Therefore there are 100 girls in the school.
The ratio of girls to boys in the school is 5:3. This means that for every 5 girls, there are 3 boys.
Given that there are 60 boys in the school, we can set up a proportion to find the number of girls. Let's let "x" represent the number of girls.
5/3 = x/60
To solve for x, we can cross multiply:
5 * 60 = 3 * x
300 = 3x
To isolate x, we divide both sides of the equation by 3:
300/3 = x
100 = x
Therefore, there are 100 girls in the school.