There The ratio of boys to girls is 4:5 there are 572 boys at the school how many children are there at the school
+65 we know that for every 4 boys there is 5 girls.
With this information we can take our 572 boys and divide them by 4 which gives us an answer of 143. This tells us that their is 143 groups of 4 boys.
We then take that 143 and use basic multiplication by multiplying 143 by 5 and you get how many girls their are in your school. 143x5 is equal to 715.
Now we know that there is 572 boys and 715 girls
We take these 2 sums and add them together to get the total amount of children in the school.
Answer is 1,287
