There are 360 people at a museum opening. Half of the people are museum supporters, 3/8 are artists, and the rest are museum employees. How many people are artists ?

Question

There are 360 people at a museum opening. Half of the people are museum supporters, 3/8 are artists, and the rest are museum employees. How many people are artists ?

Answer 1

To do this, just multiply the total number of people by the fraction which are artists:

360*3/8 = 135

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Answer 2

Thank you for the answer. How do you multiply 360 by 3/8 ? We never were taught this

Answer 3

(360/1) * (3/8)

Multiply the numerators. Then multiply the denominators.

(360/1) * (3/8) = 1,080/8 = 135

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Answer 4

Thank you , now i get it.

Answer 5

To find out how many people are artists, we need to subtract the number of supporters from the total number of people, and then multiply the remaining number by the fraction representing the artists.

First, let's calculate the number of supporters. If half of the people are museum supporters, we can find this by dividing the total number of people by 2:

Number of supporters = Total number of people / 2 = 360 / 2 = 180

Next, let's find the number of people who are not supporters. We can do this by subtracting the number of supporters from the total number of people:

Number of non-supporters = Total number of people - Number of supporters = 360 - 180 = 180

The question mentions that 3/8 of the people are artists. To find the number of artists, we multiply the fraction of artists by the number of non-supporters:

Number of artists = (3/8) * Number of non-supporters = (3/8) * 180

To calculate this, we multiply the numerator (3) by the number of non-supporters (180) and then divide the result by the denominator (8):

Number of artists = (3 * 180) / 8 = 540 / 8 = 67.5

Since we can't have half a person, we can conclude that there are 67 artists at the museum opening.

Therefore, the number of people who are artists is 67.