Question

There are 320 girls at Turkey Hill Middle School. The number of boys is 120% of the number of girls at the school. Find the number of boys at Turkey Hill Middle School.

Answer 1

We fin the number of boys in school as follows:

$b=320+320(0.2)\Rightarrow b=384$

From this, we have that the number of boys is 384.

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We found this out by adding 20% of 320 to 320.