Participation in the local soccer league this year is higher than last year. The number of males increased by and the number of females increased by . What fraction of the soccer league is now female?
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Solution
Let the amount of soccer players last year be , the number of male players last year to be , and the number of females players last year to be We want to find since that's the fraction of female players now. From the problem, we are given
Eliminating and solving for gives us our answer of
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