Students in Sports Camp

MAT 2018 · Mathematical Skills · Medium · Algebra

One-fifth of the boys and one-fourth of the girls in a class exclusively joined a swimming camp. Two-thirds of boys and three-fifths of girls exclusively joined a sports camp. If the total number of boys and girls in the class is 65, how many girls joined the sports camp?

  1. A.

    12

  2. B.

    4

  3. C.

    16

  4. D.

    Can't be determined

Answer

A

Explanation

Let number of boys be BB and girls be GG. B+G=65B + G = 65. Fractions of boys and girls joining camps must be integers: 15B\frac{1}{5}B and 23B\frac{2}{3}B implies BB must be a multiple of lcm(5,3)=15\text{lcm}(5, 3) = 15. 14G\frac{1}{4}G and 35G\frac{3}{5}G implies GG must be a multiple of lcm(4,5)=20\text{lcm}(4, 5) = 20. Since B+G=65B + G = 65 with B∈{15,30,45,60}B \in \{15, 30, 45, 60\} and G∈{20,40,60}G \in \{20, 40, 60\}: The only combination is B=45B = 45 and G=20G = 20. Number of girls joining sports camp = 35×20=12\frac{3}{5} \times 20 = 12.

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