SOLUTION: Please if someone could help me. I really don't understand how this problem comes out to be: 17 to 57. One group (A) contains 136 people. One-fourth of the people in group A wi

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Question 960149: Please if someone could help me.
I really don't understand how this problem comes out to be: 17 to 57.
One group (A) contains 136 people. One-fourth of the people in group A will be selected to win free tickets to a concert. There is another group (B) in a nearby town that will receive the same number of tickets, but there are 376 people in that group. What will be the ratio of non-winners in group A to non-winners in group B after the selections are made? Reduce your answer.

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Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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Total winners in A: 136%2F4=34
Total non-winners in A : %283%2F4%29136=102
Total non-winners in B : 376-34=342
So the ratio is,
102%2F342=17%2F57