Question

There are 16 girls and 12 boys on the cross country team

Answer 1

then?

Answer 2

Where's the rest?

Answer 3

theres just 16 girls and 12 boys thats it

Answer 4

there is no problem then

Answer 5

guess not

Answer 6

There are 16 girls and 12 boys on the cross country team.

What fraction of the team is made up of boys?

Answer 7

12/16

Answer 8

3/7! For sure

Answer 9

simplifying it is 3/4 i think

Answer 10

Simplest form right?

Answer 11

yeah

Answer 12

3/7! You add the boys and girls up which is 28 so 12/28=3/7

Answer 13

First, you have to add 16 and 12 to gain the total amount of kids on the team.
16 + 12 = 28 so... there are 28 kids in total; 16 of which are girls and 12 of which are boys.
The answer is easy: 12/28
Why?
Because out of 28 kids, 12 are boys.
Now you have to simplify your answer.
The best number to simplify with would be 4.

12 ÷ 4 = 3
28 ÷ 4 = 7

So 3/7 is the fraction of boys on the cross country team as well as your final answer.

Answer 14

Great response @LYRA_Z!