The full-time equivalent enrollment (FTE enrollment) at a college is the number of full time students it would take for their total credits (units or hours) to equal the total credits in which both part-time and full-time students combined are enrolled in one semester. The number of full-time equivalent faculty (FTE faculty) is the number of full-time faculty it would take to teach all the courses that are taught by both part-time and full time faculty combined. The FTE enrollments and number of FTE faculty are shown in Table 27 for various colleges.

Round all unit ratios to the second decimal place:
a. Find the unit ratio of FTE enrollment at Texas A&M University to the FTE enrollment at St. Olaf College. What does your result mean in this situation?
b. Find the unit ratio of the number of FTE faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to the number of FTE faculty at Butler University. What does your result mean in this situation?
c. Find the unit ratio of FTE enrollment to the number of FTE faculty at each of the colleges listed in Table 27.
d. Which college listed in Table 27 has the largest ratio of FTE enrollment to the number of FTE faculty? Which has the smallest?
e. A person believes that the ratio of FTE enrollment to the number of FTE faculty is lower at Stonehill College than at St. Olaf College, because Stonehill College has the lower FTE enrollment. Is that person correct? Explain.

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Table 27 FTE Enrollments and Numbers of FTE Faculty FTE Enrollment Number of FTE Faculty 335.1 248.7 178.0 982.4 1785.9 College Butler University St. Olaf College Stonehill College University of Massachusetts Amherst Texas A&M University 4168.0 2951.0 2351.0 17016.2 37682.49