Question

There are 36 people in a restaurant. Half of the people in the restaurant are women. The number of women in the restraunt is 3 times the number of men in the restraunt. The rest of the people in the restaurant are children. Find the ratio of the number what children in the restaurant the number of men in the restaurant. Give your answer in it's simplest form

Answer 1

Explanation:

women = 36 ÷ 2

= 18

men = divide 3 by total of woman

= 18 ÷ 3

= 6

children = the rest

= 36 - (18 + 6)

= 36 - 24

= 12

question ; ratio , children : men

= 12 : 6

= 2 : 1