2/3 of class 5A are boys.....

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anonymous · Answer

2/3 of class 5A are boys. To make the number of boys and girls equal , 4 boys from 5A go to class 5B and 4 girls come from class 5B to 5A. Now one of the students in class 5A are boys. How many students are in class 5A ?

anonymous · Answer

@ParthKohli

anonymous · Answer

Would you have 4 variables ? Or am I just trying to make this more complicated then it is ?

anonymous · Answer

@amistre64

anonymous · Answer

@phi

phi · Answer

can you fix this

Now one of the students in class 5A are boys.

anonymous · Answer

Thats what the question says....I don't understand it ?

phi · Answer

The sentence is not grammatical, which makes me wonder if they left something out.

anonymous · Answer

I thought they were supposed to be equal....then how come there is only one boy in 5A ?

phi · Answer

exactly,  I guess they mean there is 1 more boy than girl after all the moving in 5A

anonymous · Answer

Does that mean there is only 1 girl in 5B ?

anonymous · Answer

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