There are 144 people in an audience. The ratio of adults to children is 5 to 3. How many are adults?

The ratio of adults being 5:3 means that you should first divide the audience into 8 sections. You get 18. Now, you can multiply 18 by 5 to find out how many adults there are, since 5 means quantity of adults.

There are 90 adults

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PhantomWisdom PhantomWisdom · Answer 2 · 2022-01-25T11:00:06+01:00

[tex]90[/tex] adults

A ratio indicates how many times one number contains another.

Total number of people in an audience [tex]=144[/tex]

Ratio of adults to children is [tex]5:3[/tex]

Let number of adults be [tex]5x[/tex] and number of children be [tex]3x[/tex]

So,

[tex]5x+3x=144[/tex]

[tex]8x=144[/tex]

[tex]x=18[/tex]

Number of adults [tex]=5(18)[/tex]

[tex]=90[/tex]

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