manhattan word problem

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manhattan word problem

by resilient » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:41 pm
There are 360 singe degre medical students and dual degree medical and doctoral students in an uncoming class to a certain medical school. How many single degree students are in the class if the ratio of the dual degree students to the single degree students is 7 to 11?

a.20
b.80
c.140
d.220
e.280

qa is d


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by xilef » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:12 pm
there are 7 dual degree students for every 11 of single. so out of 18 students there are 11 single degree students.

( 11/18 ) * 360 = 220