36% of the pupils in class 2 are boys the remaining 16 are girls how many pupils are in class 2?

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    math_celebrity Administrator Staff Member

    36% of the pupils in class 2 are boys the remaining 16 are girls how many pupils are in class 2?

    This means 100% - 36% = 64% of the class are girls. And if the class size is s, then we have:
    64% of s = 16

    Or, written as a decimal:
    0.64s = 16

    To solve this equation for s, we type it into our search engine and we get:
    s = 25
     

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