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A group of 266 persons consists of men, women, and children. There are four times as many men as children, and twice as many women as children. How many of each are there?

Answer 1

You can work this with ratios

#MdivC=4div1# #WdivC=2div1#

Conclusion: #MdivWdivC=4div2div1#

The sum of the ratios is #4+2+1=7# which means we can divide the total number into #266div7=38# groups, each group having 1 child, 2 women and 4 men.

There will be #38xx1=38# children #38xx2=76# women #38xx4=152# men

Note: Another way would be to consider that #M=4C#, #W=2C# #M+W+C=4C+2C+C=7C=266#

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Answer 2

Luna Angel

There are 152 men, 76 women, and 38 children.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.