Problema Solution

science class has a total of 27 students. The number of males is 5 more than the number of females. How many males and how many females are in the class?

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so let number of females be x

so males =x+5

so now x+x+5=27

=> 2x+5=27

=>2x=22

=>x=11

so male 11+5=16

and female =11