Of the people at a park, 60% are men and 75% of the women wear jeans. The number of men is 140 more than the number of women who do not wear jeans. After more women come to the park, 65% of the people at the park are women. How many more women come to the park?

Question

Is the answer 70?

Answer 1

Clearly you did not check your answer.
Too bad you didn't show your work.
x = total people
0.6x = men
0.4x = women
0.75 * 0.4x = 0.3x women in jeans
So, now we know that
0.6x = 140 + 0.1x
x = 280, of which 112 are women
After y women enter the park, we have
112+y = 0.65(280+y)
Now find y.

Answer 2

y= 111.35

Answer 3

I still don't get what I did wrong. Here's my work:
60/100= men
40/100= women
.75 times .40= 30/100
30/100 women wear jeans
10/100 women don't wear jeans.
Then it says the number of men is 140 more than the number of women not wearing jeans. So 50/100= 140.
1/100= 2.8
2.8 times 65= 182
2.8 times 40= 112
182-112= 70.
I also checked my answer by doing this:
2.8 times 60= 168 (number of men)
168-140= 28.
2.8 times 10= 28 (10 is the number of women who don't wear jeans.

Answer 4

In the answer above mine it said that .6= 140, but isn't .1? Because .4 is how much women are there and .3 wear jeans so .1 don't? I don't know if what I am doing is right so could you say if it's right or wrong?

Answer 5

@Indiana, please repost your questions in a New Question form. Include this URL so oobleck can see all your work.
www.jiskha.com/questions/1812950/of-the-people-at-a-park-60-are-men-and-75-of-the-women-wear-jeans-the-number-of-men-is

Answer 6

How do I do that?

Answer 7

I get what your saying but can you show me how to do it?