AlgebraDifficulty 6.3National OlympiadFind the answerEstonia
There are the same number of boys and girls in a class. It is known that 60% of pupils do sports and 95 of pupils doing sports are boys. It is also known that 31 of pupils doing sports go to math club and 152 of girls neither do sports nor go to math club. On the other hand, 152 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 53⋅31=51 of pupils who both do sports and go to math club, whereas 21⋅152=151 of pupils are boys who both do sports and go to math club. Thus 51−151=152 of pupils are girls who both do sports and go to math club. Girls who do sports constitute 53(1−95)=154 of all pupils. Hence girls who do sports but do not go to math club constitute 154−152=152 of all pupils. Girls who neither do sports nor go to math club constitute 21⋅152=151 of all pupils. Thus girls not going to math club constitute 152+151=51 of all pupils. Other girls who constitute 21−51=103 of all pupils go to math club. They constitute 103:21=53=60% of all girls.
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