Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
In a certain community two thirds of the adult men are married to three quarters of the adult women.
How many adults would there be in the smallest community of this type?
Area. biology. Calculating with fractions. Visualising. Ratio. Speed. Angle properties of shapes. Short problems. Creating expressions/formulae. Fractions.
Published September 2006.
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