the ratio of men to women in a room is 5 to 3 if there are 15 men in the room how many women are in the room?

Question

do you set this up like a porportion?

Answer 1

We can set up a proportion to determine the number of women.

 

Ratio = men / women:

 

5 / 3 = 15 / x

 

where x is the number of women.

 

Cross multiply.

 

5x = 45

  x = 9

 

There are 9 women in the room.