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?

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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) About Me  (Show Source):
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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 5k people, poets 3k
5k%2B3k=24
8k=24
k=24%2F8
k=3
Novelists 5k=5%2A3=15 people, poets 3k=3%2A3=9 people