:4. In the Department of Natural Sciences, 14 faculty members have a PhD, and 30 faculty members do not have a PhD. In the Department, the number of female faculty who do not have a PhD is 10 more than the number of females who have a PhD. If a third of the male faculty in the Department have a PhD, then what is the number of female faculty in the Department with a PhD?

The number of female faculty in the Department with a PhD is 8.

Step-by-step explanation:

There are 14 + 30 = 44 faculty members.

Of those, x are male and y are female.

Then

x + y = 44.

The number of female faculty who do not have a PhD is 10 more than the number of females who have a PhD.

y = z + w

z is the number of females with PhD.

w is the number of females without PhD.

w = z + 10

If a third of the male faculty in the Department have a PhD

Now, we can write all variables as functions of z, which is the number of female faculty in the Department with PhD.

The objective is:

To find z from the first equation, that is:

To do this, we have to write x and y as functions of z.

Writing x and y as functions z.

And

In which

So

Replacing:

The number of female faculty in the Department with a PhD is 8.

answer: 4  

the square root of 16 is 4. it is a very simple mathematic concept. a square root when a number multiplied by itself will result in a number. here, the number 16 comes when 4 is multiplied by 4. hence the square root of 16 is 4. you can always figure out a square root by the inverse operation of squaring.  

b and c are the correct answers.

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