Question

This is Ratio math. In an office building, 66 offices are currently being rented. This represents 60% of the total units. How many offices are there in the building?There are ... offices in the building.

Answer 1

Let total number of units = x

As per the given data, 60% units constitutes 66 offices.

Hence,

`0.6x=66`

Solving further for x we have,

`\begin{gathered} x=(66)/(0.6) \\ =(660)/(6) \\ =110 \end{gathered}`

Thus, there are total number of 110 offices in a building.