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Question 1179215: A company has a total of 228 employees in the marketing and sales offices. For every five people employed in marketing, there are fourteen people employed in sales. How many people in the office work in marketing? How many people in the office work in sales? Answer by ikleyn(52818) (Show Source):
Unite "every 5 with fourteen" in groups / (sets). You will get the groups of 5+14 = 10 persons in each group.
So, the number of groups is = 12;
hence, the number of people working in the office in sales office is 14*12 = 168. ANSWER
