Five increased by the product of seven and a number is eight
in number form

5 + 7x = 8

Step-by-step explanation:

" a number" refers to a variable. In this case 5 increased is 5 + and the product of 7 and a number is 7x or 7 times x. Then tale that whole equation and set it equal to 8.

197 students (rounded to the nearest whole number)

Step-by-step explanation:

first I divided 11 by 114 to find out how much girls there are to every one boy and my answer was 10.36 (rounded to the nearest 2 d.p).

next I times it by eight according to the ratio given, my answer was 83 (rounded to the nearest whole number)

finally, I just added 114 and 83 together to get the total number of students and my answer to that was 197 (rounded to the nearest whole number)

hope it helped