Question

An after-school care facility tries to maintain a 2-to-1 ratio of children to adults. If the facility hired five adults, what is the maximum number of children that can enroll?

Answer 1

10 children

Explanation:

If we have a ratio of 2:1 children:adults, then we can find out how many children max can enroll if there are 5 adults.

Our original ratio was 2:1 and now it's x:5, assuming x is the number of children enrolled. We multiply 1 by 5 to get to 5, so we need to multiply 2 by 5 to get the total number of chlidren.

2 × 5 = 10

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