there are 16 boysin an english class of 28 students. the ratio of boys to the total numbers of students in this class is typical of the whole school. there are 476 students in the school. about how many are boys.

I agree with the other answer

272 boys

Step-by-step explanation:

16:28 can be simplified

4:7

Divide the total # of students by 7 then multiply it by 4

476/7 = 68

68 x 4 = 272

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costs the what? what is the cost of the pants?

step-by-step explanation:

if it is $10, then the price is 14.

take 40% of the cost, and then add the cost.

40% of 10 = 4

4+10 = 14.

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!