A fan club that comprises of boys and girls have a total of 160 members. if 32 more girls join the club, the percentage of girls will increase by 5%. Find the number of boys in the club.

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myininaya · Answer

so from the first sentence we have
b+g=160
do you see that
like b is the number of boys and g is the number of girls

anonymous · Answer

and then:
b+1.05g=160+32

anonymous · Answer

I don't get it??? Why 1.05g?

anonymous · Answer

because g gets increased by 5%, so 1+(5/100)

anonymous · Answer

oh okay...then how do I work it out from there???

anonymous · Answer

from the first equation you substract g from both sides, so:
b= 160-g
and then you substitute this value of b on the second equation:
160-g+1.05g=160+32
0.05g=32
g=32/0.05, are you sure its 5%, because the value of g, doesn't make sense....

anonymous · Answer

yeahh...but the answer is actually 48 boys. But i dunno hot to get it...