SOLUTION: a school has 40 teachers. the ratio of the female teachers to the number of male teachers at the school is 5:3. how many male teachers does the school have?

Question 1087789: a school has 40 teachers. the ratio of the female teachers to the number of male teachers at the school is 5:3. how many male teachers does the school have?
Answer by ikleyn(52807) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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According to the condition, there are 5 equal parts of female teachers and 3 equal parts of male teachers.

In all, there are 5 + 3 = 8 equal parts, and you can easily calculate the number of teachers in each part by dividing 40 by 8.

You will get = 5 persons in each part.

Hence, there are 5*5 = 25 female teachers and 5*3 = 15 male teachers.

There are other ways to solve this problem, but this one is the simplest.

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