Question

40% of the population of a town are men and 39% are women. If the number of children is 12600 find the numbers of men

Answer 1

it means that

21%=12600. [because 100-(40+39)=21]

using unitary method


40% =


$\frac{12600}{21} \times 40$
= 24000


so number of men in the town is 24000