The glee club has 5% more girls more than boys. there are 82 students in the glee club. how many are boys? how many are girls?

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Maksym Moskvychev · Answer 1 · 2020-08-02T08:32:44+0000

Answer:

40 boys and 42 girls.

Explanation:

Let the number of boys be x, then the number of girls = 1.05x.

So x + 1.05x = 82

x = 82 / 2.05

= 40.

So there are 40 boys and 42 girls.