There is a ratio of 5 girls to 3 boys in the chorus. There are 24 boys in the chorus.How many girls

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    There is a ratio of 5 girls to 3 boys in the chorus. There are 24 boys in the chorus.How many girls are in the chorus?

    Set up a proportion of girls to boys:
    5/3 = g/24 where g is the number of girls for 24 boys.

    Typing 5/3 = g/24 into the math tutoring calculator gives us g = 40.

     
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    math_celebrity, Jan 3, 2018
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