Athletics
160 students (gymnasiums and technical schools) participated in the athletics race. The proportion of girls from the gymnasium was 50%, the proportion of girls from the technical schools was 10%. Determine how many students were from the gymnasiums and how many from the technical schools, if there were three times more girls from the gymnasiums than girls from the technical schools.
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