A group of 266 persons consists of men, women, and children. There are four times as many men as children, and twice as many women as children. How many of each are there?

1 Answer
Mar 6, 2018

You can work this with ratios

Explanation:

#MdivC=4div1#
#WdivC=2div1#

Conclusion: #MdivWdivC=4div2div1#

The sum of the ratios is #4+2+1=7# which means we can divide the total number into #266div7=38# groups, each group having 1 child, 2 women and 4 men.

There will be
#38xx1=38# children
#38xx2=76# women
#38xx4=152# men

Note:
Another way would be to consider that #M=4C#, #W=2C#
#M+W+C=4C+2C+C=7C=266#