I.Q. Test 44
By jinuxnet
@jinuxnet (675)
Philippines
February 28, 2007 1:27am CST
44. At a local country club with 84 members, there are half as many women as there are men. The next month, 8 women join and the ratio of women to men is now 3 to 4. How many men joined or left?
20 joined
8 joined
No men joined or left
8 left
20 left
2 responses
@josephperera (2906)
• Sri Lanka
1 Mar 07
If the number of Women are W, number of men are 2W.
W + 2W = 84
W = 28
So the Number of Men are 56 and Women 28
Next month 8 Women joined and the number of women became 36.
4/3rd of this is 48, which is the number of men.
So the men have decreased from 56 to 48.
8 men have left.
