Question

In a class 50 students, three-fifths are girls. Each girl brings a ribbon of length 2 three-fourths metre and each boy brings 3 one-fourths metre. What is the total length of ribbon collected by all 50 students?

Answer 1

total ribbon collected is 147.5 meters.

Explanation:

Total students = 50

3/5 are girls

girls = 3/5*50 = 30

boys= 50-30 = 20

length of ribbon brought by girls = 30*2.75 = 82.5

length of ribbon brought by boys = 20*3.25 = 65

total length of ribbon = 82.5+65 = 147.5 metres