Given:
The ratio of men to women = 5: 4
Total number of employees = 225
The total ratio is:
[tex]\begin{gathered} =\text{ 5 + 4} \\ =\text{ 9} \end{gathered}[/tex]The number of women is the ratio of women to the total ratio times the number of employees
[tex]\begin{gathered} =\frac{4}{9}\times225 \\ =\text{ 100} \end{gathered}[/tex]Answer:
100 women
