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The large community college has 76 professors and 212 lecturers
<u>Solution:</u>
Given that,
Total number of faculty = 228
Let, the number of professors be p, then the number of lecturers will be 228 – p
They have 5 professors for every 14 lecturers.
Then, ratio of professors to lecturers is 5 : 14
Expressing the ratio as fractions, we get,
Plug in the values of number of professors and lecturers
So, community has 76 professors, then, it will have 288 – 76 = 212 lecturers.