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There are 144 people in the audience. The ratio of adults to children is 5 to 3. How many adults are there? Let x be the number of people, we have: 5x + 3x = 144 Typing this problem in our search engine, we get x = 18. Which means we have 5(18) = 90 adults

There are 100 teachers in a school of 3300 students find the ratio of number of teachers to the number of students. The Ratio is 100/3300. Divide top and bottom by 100: 1/330 or 1:33 You can also this into the search engine: Ratio of 100 to 3300.

The ratio of the number of carabaos, goats, and cows in a farm is 5:1:2. If there are 48 animals of these kinds in his backyard how many of them are goats Calculate total ratio: 5 + 1 + 2 = 8 Multiply fractional portion of goats by total animals in the backyard. 1/8 * 48 = 6 goats

63 oranges is shared among 3 boys in the ratio of 2:3:4 how many oranges will the second boy receive? Total sharing is 2 + 3 + 4 = 10. Boy 2 = 3/10 * 63 = 18.9 oranges

The ratio of adults to children at the beach is 4:3. If there are a total of 56 people how many are adults? How many are children? Using our ratio calculator, we get: 32 adults 24 children

The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 4 to 3 . If there were 2958 no votes, what was the total number of votes? Set up a ratio of yes to no votes 4/3 = x/2958 Using our proportion calculator, we get x = 3,944 for yes votes...

If the ratio of private school students to public school students in a city is 4 to 15 and there is a total of 18,601 students, how many students are in public schools? Since 4 out of 15 are public school students, this means (15 - 4)/15 = 11/15 are public school students. The total public...

Norwood High Schools jazz band includes 33 trombone players and 27 trumpet players. Meanwhile, Lakewood High Schools jazz band has 37 trombone players and 28 trumpet players. Which jazz band has a lower ratio of trombone to trumpet players? Norwood: 33 : 27, is 33 out of 60 = 55% Lakewood: 37 ...

8 out of 11 people have suitcases. If 700 people are on subway how many didnt have a suitcase? 11 - 8 = 3 people did not have a suitcase. With 700 people, we have 3 * 700/11 = 2100/11 ~ 191 people without a suitcase

The ratio of men to women working for a company is 3 to 4. If there are 81 men working for the company, what is the total number of employees? Men to women is 3:4. Set up a proportion where w is the number of women: 3/4 = 81/w Using our proportion calculator, we get w = 108. The problem asks...

Lucas has nickels,dimes,and quarters in the ratio 1:3:2. If 10 of Lucas coins are quarters, how many nickels and dimes does Lucas have? 1 + 3 + 2 = 6. Quarters account for 2/6 which is 1/3 of the total coin count. Let x be the total number of coins. We have: 1/3x = 10 Multiply each side by 3...

Cameron knows that 2 dogs are given 8 cups of food and 3 dogs are given 12 cups of food. How much food will be given to 5 dogs? 2:8 --> 3:12 --> 1:4 This means for every dog, 4 cups of food are given. With 5 dogs, we have: 5 * 4 = 20 cups of food

There are some red counters and some yellow counters in the ratio 1:5. There are 20 yellow counters in the bag. Set up a proportion where x is the amount of red counters to 20 yellow counters 1/5 = x/20 Enter that in the search engine and our proportion calculator gives us: x = 4

The ratio of men to women working for a company is 4 to 7. If there are 319 employees total, how many men work for the company? 116 using our ratio calculator

You collect a total of 75 in donations from three people. The three donations are in the ratio 4:4:7. How much is each of the smaller donations? 4 + 4 + 7 = 15 Each person's donation ratio is: Donation 1 is 4/15 of 75 Donation 2 is 4/15 of 75 Donation 3 is 7/15 of 75 4/15(75) = 5 * 4 = 20...

A pet supply chain called pet city has 15 hamsters and 12 gerbils for sale at its seaside location. At its livingston location there are 19 hamsters and 10 gerbils. Which location has a lower ratio of hamsters to gerbils? Seaside ratio 15/12 = 1.25 Livingston ratio 19/10 = 1.9 Since 1.25 <...

We take the ratio of hits to at bats: 13/25 = 0.52 To get the percent, we multiply by 100: 100 * 0.52 = 52%

There are 32 female performers in a dance recital. The ratio of men to women is 3:8. How many men are in the dance recital? 3:8 = x:32 3/8 = x/32 Cross multiply: 8x = 96 Divide each side by 8 x = 12 Check our work: 12:32 Divide each part by 4 12/4 = 3 and 32/4 = 8 so we have 3:8 :)