Question

The ratio of men to women working for a company 8 to 5. If there are 145 women working for the company, what is the total number of employees?

Answer 1

\[\color{blue}{ \frac{8}{5}=\frac{x}{145} } \]
solve for x. x is number of men.

when you find x,
\[\color{blue}{ x+145=total~~~number~~~of~~~workers } \]

Answer 2

I got 232 o.O because I did 8*145/5

Answer 3

232 for men?

Answer 4

yeah

Answer 5

Yeah, correct.

So the total number of workers, men and woman =?

Answer 6

377

Answer 7

Yup!

Answer 8

I have another one similar to that and I'm having trouble with it

Answer 9

Sure

Answer 10

r u from Atlanta?

Answer 11

It contains 3 liters of natural oil and 4 liters of synthetic oil and it has 378 Petrolyn oil, how many liters of synthetic oil are needed?

Answer 12

needed for what?

Answer 13

oops, it says in order to make 378 petrolyn oil how many liters of synthetic oil are needed

Answer 14

I get what should be written, like what you meant to write, but I don't get the question?

Answer 15

Petrolyn motor oil is a combination of natural oil and synthetic oil. It contains 3 liters of natural oil for every 4 liters of synthetic oil. In order to make 378 liters of Petrolyn oil, how many liters of synthetic oil are needed?

Answer 16

Yes, that's much better!

Answer 17

Haha :)

Answer 18

Ok, so you have
3 natural + 4 synthetic = 7 Petrolyn
3n+4s=378

Answer 19

I know it, but its really hard to explain.

Answer 20

Is the answer 640?

Answer 21

wait is it that 4 liters of synthetic and 3 of natural make 1 liter of petrolyn or 7 liters of petrolyn?

Answer 22

I put 7 liters

Answer 23

It's 7

Answer 24

OK.
so synthetic oil is going to 4/7 the ingredients.

Answer 25

\[\color{blue}{ 378 \div 7 \times 4=216 } \]

Answer 26

Thanks :) I will leave you alone now lol.