Explanation:
If the ratio of women engineers to men engineers in a construction company is 5:8, this means that for every 5 women engineers, there are 8 men engineers.
If there are 6 women engineers in the company, we can use this ratio to find the number of men engineers:
5 women engineers : 8 men engineers
6 women engineers : x men engineers
Cross-multiplying, we get:
5 women engineers * x men engineers = 6 women engineers * 8 men engineers
Simplifying, we get:
5x = 48
Dividing both sides by 5, we get:
x = 9.6
Since we can't have a fraction of a person, we can round up to the nearest whole number to get:
x = 10
Therefore, there are 10 men engineers in the construction company.