SOLUTION: 40% of vero's postal service employees are women. If there are 80 women in Vero's postal service, how many men are employed there?
Using the formula below how can you get the co
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Question 778771: 40% of vero's postal service employees are women. If there are 80 women in Vero's postal service, how many men are employed there?
Using the formula below how can you get the correct answer?
part %
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whole 100
Found 2 solutions by stanbon, MathTherapy:
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
40% of vero's postal service employees are women. If there are 80 women in Vero's postal service, how many men are employed there?
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Let "x" be the total # of men and woman in the postal service.
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0.40x =80
x = 80/0.40
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x = 200
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# of men = 200-80 = 120
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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Answer by MathTherapy(10555) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
40% of vero's postal service employees are women. If there are 80 women in Vero's postal service, how many men are employed there?
Using the formula below how can you get the correct answer?
part %
---- = ----
whole 100
With 40%, or 80 employees being women, and with E being the amount of employees,
we get:
, or
.4E = 80 ------- Cross-multiplying
E, or amount of employees = , or
As 60% of these 200 employees are men, we can say that the number of men = , or
OR
, or
Number of men, or M = .6 * 200 ------- Cross-multiplying
You can do the check!!
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