For an employee training, the employee to instructor ratio is 12 to 2. If there are 40 instructors for the training, how many employees participated in the training?

Question

A.
400
B.
240
C.
160
D.
320

Answer 1

To find out how many employees participated in the training, we can use the given employee to instructor ratio of 12 to 2.

First, we need to simplify the ratio: \[ \frac{12}{2} = 6 \] This means there are 6 employees for every 1 instructor.

If there are 40 instructors, we can set up the following calculation to find the number of employees: \[ \text{Number of employees} = \text{Number of instructors} \times 6 = 40 \times 6 = 240. \]

So, the total number of employees who participated in the training is \( \textbf{240} \).

The answer is B. 240.