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Training workshop — men and women who didn't attend
A company has 880 employees, made up of men and women. of the men and of the women attended a training workshop. The number of men who did not attend is three times the number of women who did not attend. How many women did not attend the workshop?
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The pattern behind it: The equal concept
The question tells you a part of one pile equals a part of another.
In this one. Scale 1/6 to 3/18 so both non-attending fractions have the same numerator: matching numerators create equal-sized units, so the denominators reveal the ratio of the two whole groups.
How to spot it
Two different groups each get their own fraction or percentage, and the question links them with 'the same as', 'twice as many as', or a shared cost across different units.
Common mistake
Children compare the two fractions without first relating them to a common whole. A smaller fraction of a larger group can be bigger than a larger fraction of a smaller group.
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