The time t required to do a job varies inversely as the number of people working. It takes 5 hr for 3 cooks to prepare the food
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GIVEN
1) Females outnumber males by 3 to 2.
2) There are 1770 people in the city.
SOLUTION
Let the number of males be x and the number of females y. Therefore, the total number of people can be written to be:
If there are 3 females for every 2 males, we have that:
We can substitute equation (2) into equation (1) and solve for y:
Dividing both sides by 5, we have
There are 1062 females in the county.
First, we must find the common denominator (12) ✵
10/12-6/12 ✵ ✵ ✵ ✵
Now, why 10? ✵ ✵ ✵
Because we CAN'T just take the denominator and change it; we must change both the denominator AND the numerator:
✵ • - ○
4/12 ✧ ✩ ✶ ✺ ✱
We can simplify, or reduce, this fraction: ✱ ✱
1/3 ✩ ✦ ✤
I hope it helps!