Harder fraction word problems
Episode 2 of 3
Left-handed and right-handed
The question
5/12 of the pupils in a school are left-handed and the rest are right-handed. There are 276 more pupils who are right-handed than left-handed. What is the total number of pupils in the school?
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Answer
1656
The big idea
Right-handed is 7 parts and left-handed is 5 parts. The 2 extra parts are the 276 pupils.
