I suggested "I have ten male and five female students."which should be accepted. Why not?

The only answer I can assemble from the english words given says "ten male students and five students". Shouldn't the english translation of this sentence be "I have ten students and five are female students"? I am guessing that the ten students are the students in total including male and female both, whereas the second part is indicating specifically how many of those students are female. In english you couldn't really express this with just an "and" because it would indicate that the second phrase is speaking about additional students besides those already metioned in the first phrase (which is why I added "are" in my version).