At the Cubs/White Sox baseball game on Sunday night, 65% of the fans were men. Another 25% were women. Of the remainder, 40% were boys and the rest were girls. If 640 boys attended the game, what was the total number of people in attendance?

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Duncan Rivas

4 February, 06:27

At the Cubs/White Sox baseball game on Sunday night, 65% of the fans were men. Another 25% were women. Of the remainder, 40% were boys and the rest were girls. If 640 boys attended the game, what was the total number of people in attendance?

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Roselyn Webster · Answer 1

Ok, 65% of the attendants were men, 25% were women.

That leaves us with 10% remaining.

From those 10% ... The problem tells us that 40% are boys

So 10% * (0.4) = 4% ... This means that 4% of the total attendants were boys.

So the distribution is

65% ... men

25% ... women

4% ... boys

6% ... girls

640 boys attended the game ... > this means that 4% of the total amount of people is 640.

So the number of persons that attended were

T = 100% * (640)) / 4% = 16000 people