Tips & Tricks Given: Ratio of males and females of a village = 5 : 3 Number of males in village = 800 Calculation: Let the number of males and females be 5x and 3x respectively ⇒5x=800 ⇒x=160 Number of females = 3x ⇒3×160 ⇒ 480 ∴ The number of females is 480