Question

A room has equal number of men and women. eight women left the room, leaving twice as many men as women in the room . what was the total number of men and women present in the room initially?

Answer 1

Let x= Equal number of men or women

Men = x
Women = x
Since both are equal at the start.

Men = x
Women = x-8
This is when 8 women left.

And so.. our equation in finding x is

x = 2(x-8)
It basicall means that twice the women equals the number of men.

In finding x..
x=2x-16
-x=-16
x=16

Then multiply it by 2 since there were equal gender which is 32 people at the stwrt specifically 16 women and 16 men.

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