Statement:
A school has exactly twice as many boys as girls. There are one hundred and forty-two boys.
To find out:
The number of girls in the school.
Solution:
- Let the number of girls in the school be x.
- Then, the number of boys = 2x.
- It is given that the number of boys in the school is 142.
- Therefore, 2x = 142
- or, x = 142 ÷ 2
- or, x = 71
- So, the number of girls in the school is seventy-one.
Answer:
There are seventy-one girls in the school.
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