Question

Answer needed asap please

Answer 1

Answer:  $Total\ number\ of\ people=70$

Step-by-step explanation:

For this exercise let "m" represents the total number of men at the meeting.

You know that the total number of people at the meeting represents de 100% of the people there.

According to the information given in the exercise, the number of men in the meeting representes the 40% of the people. So:

$100\%-40\%=60\%$

As you can notice, 60% of the perople are women.

Then,  knowing that the number of women is 42, you can set up the following proportion:

$\frac{42}{60}=\frac{m}{40}$

Solve for "m" in orde to find its value:

$(40)(\frac{42}{60})=m\\\\m=28$

Therefore, the total number of people at the meeting  is:

$Total\ number\ of\ people=42+28=70$