Question

In a social club, the ratio of men to women is 5: 7. There are 595 women. Howmany men are there?

Answer 1

The given question requires that we get the number of men

We have the ratio of men to women to be

`5\colon7`

we are given the number of women to be 595

Thus, to get the numbers of men, we can represent the number of men to be m, and then we can set up the relationship:

We can get the value of m by cross multiplying

We will have