Question

The ratio of men to women working for a company is 5 to 4. If there are 72 women working for the company, what is the total number of employees?

Answer 1

`162`

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we want to get the total number of employees working for the company

To get this, we need to get the total ratio which is 5 + 4 = 9

If we divided 4 by 9 and multiply by the total, we can get the number of women

Since we do not know the total, let us call it t

Mathematically:

`(4)/(9)*\text{ t = 72}`

We can now proceed to solve for t:

`\begin{gathered} 4\text{ }*\text{ t = 9}*72 \\ t\text{ = }(9*72)/(4)\text{ = 162} \end{gathered}`