A group of ten children counted out their haul from trick or treating and found they had 58 sweets. They shared them out so that each girl got seven sweets and each boy got five. How many boys and girls were in the group?
4 girls & 6 boys
if g- number of girls, b- number of boys we have 1) b+g=10 2) 7g+5b=58 from 1) & 2) we find out g=4, b=6
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