At a certain university the student to teacher ratio is 16:1. If there are 2,000 students enrolled, how many teachers must be employed to maintain this ratio?

Question

Question 10 options:

A)

200

B)

215

C)

28,000

D)

125

Answer 1

To find the number of teachers required to maintain the student-to-teacher ratio of 16:1 with 2,000 students, we can use the ratio formula.

The ratio of students to teachers is 16:1, which means for every 16 students, there is 1 teacher.

To find the number of teachers, we can set up the equation based on the provided ratio:

\[ \text{Number of teachers} = \frac{\text{Number of students}}{\text{Ratio of students per teacher}} = \frac{2000}{16} \]

Calculating this:

\[ \frac{2000}{16} = 125 \]

Therefore, the number of teachers needed to maintain the 16:1 ratio with 2,000 students is 125.

The correct answer is D) 125.