In a service. 1/4 of the people are men, 1/3 are women and the rest are children. If there are 50 children, how many
a) people are there altogether?
b) more women than men are there?
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Given;
Fraction of people that are men =
Fraction of people that are women =
Number of children = 50
Let fraction of children be
When talking about fraction, a whole is
Sum of all the fractions should be equal to 1
a) Let the number of people altogether be
Since the number of children was given, it is possible to find the number of people altogether.
b) To find the number of more women than men, we need to find the number of men and women. After that, we subtract the number of men from the number of women.
Number of men =
of 120
Number of women
of 120
Number of more women than men = number of women – number of men