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There are the same number of boys and girls in a class. It is known that 60%60\% of pupils do sports and 59\frac{5}{9} of pupils doing sports are boys. It is also known that 13\frac{1}{3} of pupils doing sports go to math club and 215\frac{2}{15} of girls neither do sports nor go to math club. On the other hand, 215\frac{2}{15} of boys both do sports and go to math club. What percentage of girls go to math club?

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Solution

There are 3513=15\frac{3}{5} \cdot \frac{1}{3} = \frac{1}{5} of pupils who both do sports and go to math club, whereas 12215=115\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{2}{15} = \frac{1}{15} of pupils are boys who both do sports and go to math club. Thus 15115=215\frac{1}{5} - \frac{1}{15} = \frac{2}{15} of pupils are girls who both do sports and go to math club. Girls who do sports constitute 35(159)=415\frac{3}{5}(1 - \frac{5}{9}) = \frac{4}{15} of all pupils. Hence girls who do sports but do not go to math club constitute 415215=215\frac{4}{15} - \frac{2}{15} = \frac{2}{15} of all pupils. Girls who neither do sports nor go to math club constitute 12215=115\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{2}{15} = \frac{1}{15} of all pupils. Thus girls not going to math club constitute 215+115=15\frac{2}{15} + \frac{1}{15} = \frac{1}{5} of all pupils. Other girls who constitute 1215=310\frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{5} = \frac{3}{10} of all pupils go to math club. They constitute 310:12=35=60%\frac{3}{10} : \frac{1}{2} = \frac{3}{5} = 60\% of all girls.

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