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7-10.
A college has a 2:3 ratio of men to women in its student body.
What is the ratio of women to men? If there are
men for every women, what would the ratio of women to men be? What is the ratio of women to total students?
If for every
women there are men, the total students per women is . What is this ratio? What percent of the college is men?
If the ratio of men to total students is
, what percentage would this represent? What fraction of the college is women?
Based on the ratio of women to total students from part (b), what would the fraction for women out of total students be?