There are 32 female performers in a dance recital. The ratio of men to women is 3:8. How many men are in the dance recital??????
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Answer:
|SQ|=5
Step-by-step explanation:
If S is the median, then OP is a median of triangle OMN.
This implies that:
|MP|=|NP|
We group like terms and solve for x.
Now we know that: MN:SQ=2:1
But MN=2x+2
This implies that:
2x+2:SQ=2:1
Put x=4
2(4)+2:SQ=2:1
10:SQ=2:1
Therefore |SQ|=5