Fifty students were eating lunch in the school cafeteria. the ratio of boys to girls was 25: 25. mrs. white asked kym to explain what that ratio meant. kym said it meant that 25% of the students in the cafeteria were boys. explain why kym is incorrect.

It was given that:

Fifty students were eating lunch in the school cafeteria.

The ratio of boys to girls was 25:25.

On reducing this ratio to the simplest form we have the ratio as:1:1

This means that the number of girls and boys in the school cafeteria are equal.

This means that the number of boys are half the number of student in the cafeteria.

and  the number of girls are also half the number of student in the cafeteria.

Hence, the number of boys and girls are 50% each of the number of students in the cafeteria.

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