2016 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 12
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Jefferson Middle School has the same number of boys and girls. of the girls and of the boys went on a field trip. What fraction of the students on the field trip were girls?
Solution 1
Let there be boys and girls in the school. We see , which means kids went on the trip and kids are girls. So, the answer is , which is .
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