This is Ratio math. In an office building, 66 offices are currently being rented. This represents 60% of the total units. How many offices are there in the building?There are ... offices in the building.

Answer :

Let total number of units = x

As per the given data, 60% units constitutes 66 offices.

Hence,

[tex]0.6x=66[/tex]

Solving further for x we have,

[tex]\begin{gathered} x=\frac{66}{0.6} \\ =\frac{660}{6} \\ =110 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Thus, there are total number of 110 offices in a building.

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