Because of slumping sales a small company had to lay off some employees. the ratio of total employees to employees laid off is 5 to 1. How many employees were laid off if there are a total of a 110 employees

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5/1 = 110/x
Cross multiply
5x = 110
divide both sides by 5
5x/5 = 110/5
x = 22
22 employees were laid off

Laz Karimov answered Oct 3, 2018

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