Homework Help: Math

Posted by Samantha on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 4:01am.

At a company, there are y more male employees than female employees. If there are x male employees at the company, what fraction of the employees are male, in terms of y and x?

Math - Reiny, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 7:09am
number of males --- x (it said so)
number of females --- x - y (it said so)

total = x + x-y = 2x-y

fraction of males = x/(2x-y)

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