Question

60% of the students in a class are boys. If there are 16 girls in the class, how many boys are there?

Answer 1

24 boys

Explanation:

If 60% of the students in a class are boys, 40% of the students are girls.

Then 16/0.4 = 40 students total

40 - 16 = 24 boys

or you can use 40 x 0.6 = 24 boys