A group of 266 people, composed of men, women, children. There are four times more men than children, and twice as many women as children, how many are there?
To solve this you would need to set this up as an equation Children=x Women=2x Men=4x Children is x because the amount is unknown So to set this up it would be x+2x+4x=266 All of the x’s added is 7x so it’s 7x=266 Divide both sides by 7 7/7 cancels out leaving only x and 266 divided by 7 is 38 So the amount of kids is 38, the amount of women is 76 and the amount of men is 152 In short C
