At a fun fair, there were 49 more children than women. There were 3/5 as many men as women. Given that the number of women was 25% of the total number of people at the fun fair, how many people were at the fun fair?
Solution
Men ----- 3 units
Women ----- 5 units
Children ----- 5 units + 49
Total ----- 13 units + 49
(Women) 5 units ----- 25%
1 unit ----- 25% divided by 5 = 5%
13 units ----- 13 x 5% = 65%
Remaining 49 people ----- 100% - 65% = 35%
35% ----- 49 people
(35% divided by 7)= 5% ----- (49 divided by 7) = 7
5% ----- 7
(5% x 20) = 100% ----- (7 x 20) = 140
100% ----- 7 x 20 = 140
Answer: There were 140 people at the fair.
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Rosyth Sch 2006 PSLE Math Prelim Q46
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Red & Blue: R : B = 1 : 3 = 2 : 6 = 3 : 9. RN : BN = 1 : 4 = 2 : 8. 1 u --> 30. 12 u --> 12 x 30 = 360 pens.
Pens: Thks,GAAM.How about this one? Sorry, I had used algebra to solve and got 360 pens coz couldn't think of another way. A shopkeeper had some red and blue pens.The number of red pens was 25% of the total number of pens.After selling away 30 red pens and 30 blue pens, the number of red pens became 25% of the number of blue pens left.How many pens did he have at first?
Red & Blue: R : B = 1 : 3 = 2 : 6 = 3 : 9. RN : BN = 1 : 4 = 2 : 8. 1 u --> 30. 12 u --> 12 x 30 = 360 pens.
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I am afraid 136 is not correct.
Green -- 1
Yellow -- 27 [= 1 x 3 x 3 x 3]
Red -- 216 [= 27 x 2 x 2 x 2]
Total = 244
Hi Cubes
You are right.Thank you for the correction.
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