Question

In an office, there are 65 employees. the number of female employees is 5 more than 1/5th of male employees. find the number of female employees in the office

Answer 1

let the no. of female and male employees be x and y respectively.
then x=5+1/5y -(1)
A.T.Q.
x+y=65
from eq. (1), we get
5+1/5y+y=65
6y/5=60
y=50
x=15
#the no. of female employees is 15.