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Posted by A. Davis on 10/12/2014 10:00:00 PM
The Business Direct Hotel caters to people who travel for different types of business trips. On Saturday night there is not a lot of business travel, so the ratio of the number of occupied rooms to the number of unoccupied rooms is 2:5. However, on Sunday night the ratio of the number of occupied rooms to the number of unoccupied rooms is 6:1 due to the number of business people attending a large conference in the area. If the Business Direct Hotel has 432 occupied rooms on Sunday night, how many unoccupied rooms does it have on Saturday night?
What happens if the original problem is changed so that the Saturday night ratio doesn't have the same amount of total parts as the Sunday night ratio:
The Business Direct Hotel caters to people who travel for different types of business trips. On Saturday night there is not a lot of business travel, so the ratio of the number of occupied rooms to the number of unoccupied rooms is 3:5. However, on Sunday night the ratio of the number of occupied rooms to the number of unoccupied rooms is 6:1 due to the number of business people attending a large conference in the area. If the Business Direct Hotel has 432 occupied rooms on Sunday night, how many unoccupied rooms does it have on Saturday night?