For employee training, the employee-to-instructor ratio is 18 to 2. If there are 36 instructors for the training, how many employees participated in the training?

A. 540
B. 216
C. 432
D. 324

1 answer

The employee-to-instructor ratio is 18 to 2, which simplifies to 9 to 1. This means that for every 1 instructor, there are 9 employees. If there are 36 instructors, then there are 36*9 = <<36*9=324>>324 employees.
Therefore, the answer is D. 324.