2. (16 points) In a school, the ratio of male to female students in the first year of junior high school is . After one year, 40 new students are transferred in, and the ratio of male to female students becomes 17:15. By the third year of junior high school, some students have transferred out, and some new students have transferred in, resulting in a net increase of 10 students. At this point, the ratio of male to female students is 7:6. How many male and female students were admitted in the first year of junior high school?
Note: The number of first-year junior high school students admitted does not exceed 1000.
Solution
2. Let the total number of new students in Grade 7 be people, the total number of students in Grade 8 be people, and the total number of students in Grade 9 be people, where , , and are integers. From the problem, we have
Subtracting (1) from (2) gives , so is a multiple of 13. Let , i.e.,
Thus, is a multiple of 8, and an odd multiple.
When , substituting into (1) gives
When , substituting into (1) gives
When , substituting into (1) gives
In summary, the school admits 600 new students in Grade 7, of which are boys, and 280 are girls.
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