document.write( "Question 1207384: At a party, married people came with their husbands or wives. If half of the women and 1/6 of the men in the party were single, what percentage of the people in the room were married? \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "The number of men must be a multiple of 6.  So let there be 6N men. \r\n" );
document.write( "1/6 of 6N men or 1N men are single and the other 5N men are married.\r\n" );
document.write( "So 5N women are married to those 5N men, and since 1/2 the women are\r\n" );
document.write( "single, 1/2 the women, or 5N are married, so another 5N women are single.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the ratio of married to total people is \r\n" );
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