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on one of the day you went to the gym,the ratio of men to women was 3:2.if 120 men used the gym,how many women were there?

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120-3/5
x-2/5
cross multiply the values
therefore:120×3/5=48
48=2/5x
48÷2/5=2/5÷2/5x
80=x
User Tanato
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Answer:

80 women

Explanation:

A ratio of men to women of 3:2 means that for 3 men that use the gym 2 women use the gym, so using a rule of three we can determinate how many women were on the gym that day if 120 men were there, like this:

3 men ------ 2 women

120 men ------ X


X = ((120men)(2women))/(3men)=80 women

Then, there were 80 women for the 120 men that were in the gym.

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