Question

The teacher to student ratio is 4:16. The total number of students and teachers is 740. How many students are there? You answer

Answer 1

The teacher to student ratio is 4:16. The total number of the student and teacher is given as 740. The number of student can be calculated below

$\begin{gathered} \text{total of the ratio =16 + 4=20} \\ \text{ number of student=}\frac{16}{20}\times740 \\ \text{ number of student=}\frac{11840}{20} \\ \text{ number of student=}592\text{ } \end{gathered}$