SOLUTION: A writing workshop enrolls novelists and poets in a ratio of 5 to 3. There are 24 people at the workshop. How many are novelists? How many are poets?

Question 403201: A writing workshop enrolls novelists and poets in a ratio of 5 to 3. There are 24 people at the workshop. How many are novelists? How many are poets?
Answer by Tatiana_Stebko(1539) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let k is the coefficient of the ratio
A writing workshop enrolls novelists and poets in a ratio of 5 to 3, Then novelists there are people, poets

Novelists people, poets people
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