the ratio of boys to girls is 3 to 2.if there are 12 boys ,how many girls are there

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on Nov 25, 2024 at 12:25 am



MathBot Answer:

Given:\[\begin{aligned}\text{num boys} : \text{num girls} = 3 : 2\end{aligned}\]It follows:\[\begin{aligned}\frac{\text{num boys}}{\text{num girls}} = \frac{3}{2}\end{aligned}\]If there are 12 boys, then:\[\begin{aligned}\frac{\text{num girls}}{12} = \frac{2}{3}\end{aligned}\]Therefore:\[\begin{aligned}\text{num girls} = \frac{2}{3} \times 12 = 8\end{aligned}\]