There are five boys to every nine girls in an introductory engineering course .if there are 364 students enrolled in the course , how many are boys ?

234

Step-by-step explanation:

So what we know is that

5x+9x= students

This equation is saying that for every 5 boys there are 9 girls

we can then plug in 364 for the number of students and add like terms

This means that 14x=364

this means that x=26

This means that there are 26 sets of 5 boys and 9 girls

this means that there are

130 boys

234 girls

step-by-step explanation:

if you meant, "on the way from (3, 2) to (3, 14):

x does not change; y increases by 12.

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