Question

the number of males and females in a town is in the ratio 8:5 if the number of females in the town is 160 find the total number of people in the town​

Answer 1

the answer is 260 as when we divide 160 by 8X it comes out 20 then we will get the value of X and if we will multiply 5 by 20 we will get the number of males if and if we will add both of them we will get 260
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