Answer to Question #280916 in Algebra for Jamo

Question

Last summer, at Camp Okey-Fun-Okey, the ratio of the number of boy campers to the number of girl campers was 8:7. If there were a total of 195 campers, how many boy campers were there? *

There were _______ boy campers

Answer 1

Let $8x=$ the number of boy campers. Then there were $7x$ girl campers.

There were a total of 195 campers

$$8x+7x=195$$

$$15x=195$$

$$x=13$$

$$8(13)=104$$

There were $104$ boy campers.