a business has 8 projects leads, 12 graphic artist, 20 software developers and 4 sales people
A. what is the ratio of the employees?
B. if 2 software developers leave the business, calculate the new ratio of the employees

Question

a business has 8 projects leads, 12 graphic artist, 20 software developers and 4 sales people 
A. what is the ratio of the employees?
B. if 2 software developers leave the business, calculate the new ratio of the employees

welshfella · Answer

8:12:20:4

divide through by 4 to simplify the ratios

welshfella · Answer

new ration will be 8:12:18:4

welshfella · Answer

* ratio

welshfella · Answer

what do you get for the first part?

anonymous · Answer

for the first part, I got, 2;3;5;1

welshfella · Answer

the reason you divide by 4 is because 4 is the GCF of the 4 numbers ( GCF = greatest common factor)

welshfella · Answer

correct

welshfella · Answer

now what is the GCF of 4,8,18,4?

anonymous · Answer

thank you!

welshfella · Answer

sorry thats 8,12,18,4

welshfella · Answer

now 4 won't divide into 18  so the GCF is a smaller even number  which is  ?