The ratio of male employees to female employees is 1:3. If there are 144 female employees in total, how many males are there?
1/3 = 48
To find the number of male employees, we need to determine the ratio between males and females.
Given that the ratio of male employees to female employees is 1:3, we can say that for every 1 male, there are 3 females.
Given that there are 144 female employees, we can divide this number by 3 to find the number of males.
144 females ÷ 3 females/male = 48 males
So, there are 48 males.
To determine the number of male employees, we need to first find the ratio between the number of male employees and female employees. The given ratio is 1:3, which means that for every 1 male employee, there are 3 female employees.
Since we are given that there are 144 female employees, we can divide this number by the ratio multiplier of the females in the ratio, which is 3. This will give us the number of sets of 1 male and 3 females in the ratio.
144 divided by 3 equals 48. Therefore, there are 48 sets of 1 male and 3 females.
To find the number of male employees in total, we need to multiply the number of sets (48) by the number of males in each set (1).
48 multiplied by 1 equals 48. Therefore, there are 48 male employees in total.
1/3 = x/144
Solve for x.