Question

There are 40 people in a choir.
Half of the people in the choir are women.
The number of women in the choir is 5 times the number of
men in the choir.
The rest of the people in the choir are children.
the number of
children in the
choir
:
the number of
men in the choir
n : 1
Work out the value of n.
You must show how you get your answer.
n =

Answer 1

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Answer:

  n = 4

Step-by-step explanation:

Of the 40 people, half are women, so there are 20 women.

There are 5 times as many women as men, so 20/5 = 4 are men.

The remainder are children, so there are 20-4 = 16 children.

The ratio of children to men is ...

  children : men = 16 : 4 = 4 : 1 = n : 1 . . . . . . . . remove a factor of 4 from 16:4

The value of n is 4.