Question

The ratio of girls to students at a middle school is 10 to 18. If there are 270 students at the school, how many are girls?

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(I believe its 150, but I'm not sure. It'll be awesome if you can explain how to do this also)

Answer 1

10/18 = 0.5555 = 55.6%

0.556 × 270 = 150

You are Correct!

Answer 2

A good way of doing this problem would be to use cross multiplication of ratios

`(10 girls)/(18 students) = (X girls)/(270 students)`

Then cross multiply

(10 girls)(270 students)=(X girls)(18 students)

2700=18x
150=x