Question

35% population of a town are men and 40% are women. If the number of children is

20000,What is the number of women?

a) 3200 b) 30 050 c) 32000 d) 31500​

Answer 1

Answer:

a)3200

Step-by-step explanation:

Let total population be x.

∵ 35 % are men and 40 % are women, 25 % are children.

25

100

×x=20,000

x = 80,000

Number of women = 100

40 ×80,000

=3,200

Answer 2

Answer:

32000 are the number of woman.

Step-by-step explanation:

35 % are women and 40 % are men, 20000 are the number of children children.

number of women=0.4x

number of men=0.35x

So,

number of children=total-(number of men+number of women)

=x-(0.4 + 0.35)

=0.25

As,

number of children=20000

So,

0.25=20000

=80,000

Number of women=0.4(80,000)

=32,000

So, 32,000 women