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11.3 Exercise 3

Avg difficulty 2.5

Refer to the information given in the example.

  1. If there are 32 class sections each semester in the Fine Art department, and the same ratio is used to determine the number of faculty members, how many faculty members would you expect to see in the Fine Art department?
  2. If the Health Sciences department has 6 full-time faculty members, how many part-time faculty members are in the department?

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 11.3 Standard Divisors, Standard Quotas, and the Apportionment Problem, exercise 3

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