So women:men=5:7
for every 5 units of women, there are 7 units of men so
there are 140 men and that equals 7 units so
140=7 units
solve for 1 unit
140/7=20
1 unit=20
women=5 units
5 times 20=100
women=100
total=women+men=100+140=240
another way would be to add up the units (5+7=12) and multiply by the amount per 1 unit
Well, when you get the answer to a multiplication problem, you divide your answer to check it, so just do that with the decimals that you multiplied.
For Example:
2 x 3 = 6
6 is your answer, so, do this problem to check it:
6 / 3 = 2
280 right handed gloves. First, we'd need to find out the amount of left handed gloves. We do this by multiplying 0.3 (which is basically 30%) by the total number of gloves. This is because we are finding out 30% of the 400 gloves, and "of" represents multiplication. We get 120. Then, we subtract that number from 400 to get the amount of right handed gloves, which is 280. hope this helps :)
