Question
At a company, there are y more male employees than female employees. If there are x male employees at the company, what fraction of the employees are male, in terms of y and x?
Answers
Reiny
number of males --- x (it said so)
number of females --- x - y (it said so)
total = x + x-y = 2x-y
fraction of males = x/(2x-y)
number of females --- x - y (it said so)
total = x + x-y = 2x-y
fraction of males = x/(2x-y)