Find out the total population of a town if the ratio between the literate and the illiterate of the
inhabitants of the town is 2.5. The numbers of illiterate exceeds the number of literates by 9,000.
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Answer. Let the number of literate people be 2x. That means the number of illiterate people, according to our ratio, is 5x. And the TOTAL number of people in the town is the literates plus the illiterates, or 2x + 5x, which is 7x.
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