Wednesday, September 3, 2014

P6 Ratio (fr Ryan tan)

In a cinema, the ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys was 3 : 2. The ratio of the number of women to the number of boys was 5 : 4. The ratio of the number of girls to the number of men was 2 : 5. During the movie, 6 women and 27 men left the cinema. The ratio of the number of women to the number of men then became 1 : 2.
(a) Express the number of women as a fraction of the number of men at first. Leave your answer in its simplest form.
(b) How many children were there in the cinema?