1/3 of students at a school are boys. If there are 600 students at the school, how many are girls?

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    math_celebrity Administrator Staff Member

    1/3 of students at a school are boys. If there are 600 students at the school, how many are girls?

    If 1/3 are boys, then the number of boys is:
    600 * 1/3
    600/3

    We type this fraction into our search engine to simplify, and we get:
    200

    Now we need to find how many girls are at the school:
    Girls = Total Students - Boys
    Girls = 600 - 200
    Girls = 400
     

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