Question

At a local shelter, 36 people volunteered to help prepare meals for disaster victims. If this represented 9/16 of the volunteers at the shelter, write and solve an equation to determine how many volunteers helped at the local shelter.

Answer 1

 ((36/9)*7)+36=64
36 volunteers making meals divided by the ratio of volunteers that are making meals (9) multiplied by the ratio of people not making meals (7) plus the 36 people making meals to get the total amount of people (64).