5/8 the number of boys in a school.if there are 240 girls.find the number of boys?

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5/8 of the students in a school are boys. There are 240 girls. How many boys are there?
Out of every 8 students, there are 5 boys and 3 girls. So,

b/g = 5/3
g = 240
so, b = 400