There are 32 female performers in a dance recital. the ratio of men to women is 3: 8.how many men are in the dance recital?

Yes the answer is 12. If there are a total of x performers and y is the number of males, then the equation is 8k = 32 where k is an element of the natural numbers. That means that the ratio has to be multiplied by 4 to get the numbernof males. In this case it was 3 so 3×4=12.

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