In a programming team of 20 persons, 1/4 are women and 3/4 are men. to obtain a team with 40% women, how many women should be hired?

This is the concept of algebra, to solve the question we proceed as follows;

the current number of women is:

1/4*20=5 women

the percentage of women is:

1/4*100=25%

therefore for the team to have 40% women, the number of women should be:

40/25*5

=8 women

The answer is 8 women