Question

The ratio of male to female employees at a local bank is 4:3. If 18 females work at this bank, how many males does the bank employ?

Answer 1

@OrangeMaster

Answer 2

24 i think

Answer 3

Yes, that's the answer 100% but how did you get this?

Answer 4

simple
number of female employees=18=3/7 of the total no. of employees.
let total no. of employees be X
then 3/7(X)=18
=>X=42
So 4/7 of 42 is 24

Answer 5

3/7?

Answer 6

3 = 3 female employees, but what is the 7?

Answer 7

ratio is 4:3 add 4&3 u get the denominator 7

Answer 8

ahh.

Answer 9

fell free to give a medal

Answer 10

i will don't worry lol, right after you help me out so i can understand this completely :D

Answer 11

"then 3/7(X)=18" what you mean by this?

Answer 12

(7x18)/3=7x6=42

Answer 13

so u get X=42

Answer 14

good morning by the way

Answer 15

lol you too, but i may live someone in like australia for all you know so it may be night here, but here it's morning time, so good morning lol

Answer 16

"(7x18)/3=7x6=42" 7x18 = 126 / 3 = 42. But why did you put 7x6 now???

Answer 17

because its easy to multiply 7&6
factors of 18 are 3x3x2
so you are basiclly doing 7x(3x2)x3/3=7x6=42

Answer 18

its just a faster way of calculating

Answer 19

umm..

Answer 20

factors of 18?

Answer 21

what does that mean?

Answer 22

(really sorry lol) I can make this into 2 questions if you like so you can get more than 1 medal, cause your spending a lot of time helping me.

Answer 23

factors mean the basic numbers it is made of

Answer 24

Isn't there several other ways to get this answer?

Answer 25

like factors of 32 are 2x2x2x2x2

Answer 26

So it's like an exponent then?

Answer 27

na medal is not the priority
my goal is u should learn something out of this

Answer 28

its somewhat like that

Answer 29

Awe <3 thats so sweet haha well I am learning. Thank you very much :D

Answer 30

"so you are basiclly doing 7x(3x2)x3/3=7x6=42"

Answer 31

first the 7 represents the total number of people

Answer 32

yup

Answer 33

"(3x2)" represents what?

Answer 34

the original ratio of the 4:3 male to female employees?

Answer 35

6 my dear

Answer 36

but where does the 3 come from? Is it the ratio of 4:3 male to female employees?

Answer 37

do 24/18 u get 4/3

Answer 38

which 3

Answer 39

Now when you say "do 24/18 u get 4/3" do you mean divide 24 by 18?

Answer 40

OHHHHH now i get it! lolol

Answer 41

yes "/" means divide

Answer 42

1.33

Answer 43

1/3 = .33, 33% correct?

Answer 44

4/3 is same as 4:3

Answer 45

so 4/3 = 1.33, 1.33 = 133%

Answer 46

Yeah, your just turning it into a ratio.

Answer 47

" 7x(3x2)x3/3=7x6=42" can you explain this one more time please?

Answer 48

and isn't their multiple ways to get the answer?

Answer 49

I did it another way and I got the answer 24 but I'm not sure if it was just a coincidence. and I was wondering if you could help me out with that one.

Answer 50

This is what I did,
the ratio is 4:3, 4 males for every 3 female employees

Answer 51

so 18 / 3 (3 female employees)
=6

Answer 52

then I did 6 x 4 (4 male employees)
24

Answer 53

You there?

Answer 54

That's how I got the answer 24 not sure if that's a correct way of getting it though.

Answer 55

Also I just learned another way 4/3 = 1.33 x 18 = 24 (rounded)

Answer 56

just wait i am sending a pic from my note book

Answer 57

sure thing :)

Answer 58

lol wow your amazing, going out of your way to help me, can't even thank you enough

Answer 59

always happy to help

Answer 60

what does "h" stand for on the page?

Answer 61

or is that an 'n"?

Answer 62

thats not "n" its a X

Answer 63

oh lol sorry

Answer 64

my teacher always points that out

Answer 65

points what out? o.O

Answer 66

THe X and the n

Answer 67

lol, your teacher can't tell the difference either?

Answer 68

i dont know why its just an X in the lower case cursive

Answer 69

ah.. I'm not really familiar with cursive, that's why :P

Answer 70

Okay I understand this thank you and goodbye lol.

Answer 71

bye

Hawk is always happy to help

Answer 72

it was nice working with u