Answer to Question #256223 in Algebra for Khim

Question

A total of 346 first year students of CMU are currently enrolled in the subject GEC15. If there are 26 more girls than boys. How many girls are there?

Answer 1

Let $x=$ the number of boys. Then there are $x+26$ girls.

$$x+x+26=346$$

$$2x=320$$

$$x=160$$

$$160+26=186$$

Then there are $186$ girls.