Question

The ratio of men to women working for a company is 4 to 7. If there are 319 employees total, how many women work for the company?

Answer 1

Since the ratio of women to men is 7 to 4, we can say that for every 7 women there are 4 men, we can also say that for a total of 11 employees (4 + 7 = 11) 7 of them are women, then we can formulate this ratio as a fraction like this:

women to employee = 7/11

Then by multiplying the total number of employees by 7/11 we can calculate how many of them are women, then we get:

women = 319×7/11 = 203

Then, a total of 203 women work for the company