The ratio of men to women working for a company is 5 to 8 . if there are 104 women working for the company, what is the total number of employees?

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Sarathlal N · Answer 1 · 2018-03-10T23:23:08+0000

The ration for women to men is:

5:8
104:x

8x104=5x
832=5x
832/5=x
166.4 =x

However, you cannot have 0.4 of a person, so the number of men is 166.

Total number of employees are: 166+104=270

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