Question

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The ratio of men to women working for a company is 2 to 3. If there are 130 employees total, how many women work for the company?

Answer 1

\[\frac{ 2 }{ 3 } = \frac{ 130 }{ x }\]
\[2x=130 \times 3\]
\[x = \frac{ 130 \times 3 }{ 2}\]
\[x = 195\]

Answer 2

not quite.

Answer 3

hold on a sec

Answer 4

can you help me fix it ? what did i do wrong ?

Answer 5

there are 2 men for every 3 women, so would you agree that out of every 5 employees, 2 are men and 3 are women?

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

would you agree that 2/5 of the employees are men and 3/5 of the employees are women, then?

Answer 8

yes i would

Answer 9

ok, so we know that 3/5 of the employees are women
there are 130 total employees

can you find how many women there are?

Answer 10

is 78 correct ?

Answer 11

yup! you got it!

Answer 12

thank you !