Question

Challenge in a company, 90% of the workers are men. If 250 people work for the company who aren't men, how many workers are there in all? Use pencil and paper Show two different ways that you can solve this problem. There are workers in all. (Type a whole number)

Answer 1

1) Gathering the data

90% are men

250 people who aren't men, then they are women.

2) Since we have the percentage of men, and the number of women, we can find how many workers this way:

250 ---------------- 10%

x ----------------------100%

10x = 25000

x=2500 workers

2500- 250 = 2250 men

and 250 women.

Alternatively, we can find this another way, since we know that 250 corresponds to 10%

2500x0.9