Question

The ratio of lineman to forman on a certain project is 8:1. If there are 48 lineman on the project, how many forman are there?

Answer 1

There are 6 foremen on the project compared to the 48 linemen

What is ratio?

Ratio is a quantitative relationship which shows the number of times one value is contained in another, in this case,8:1, the ratio of lineman to foreman means that for every 8 linemen there is 1 foreman

The relationship can also be depicted as shown below:

8/1=48/X

Since there 8 linemen to 1 foreman, it then means 8/1 is the same as 48 divided by X, where represents the number of foremen

Let us cross multiply

8/1=48/X

8*X=48*1

X=48*1/8

X=6

6 means that the project has 6 foremen

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