Question

It takes 17 full specific type of trees to make one tonne of paper. If there are 221 such trees in a forest, then what fraction of forest will be used to make 5 tonnes of paper.

Answer 1

1 tonne of paper require = 17 trees

∴ 5 tonne of paper require = 17 × 5 trees = 85 trees

Now, there are 221 trees in the forest.

So, 85 trees covers = `85/221` fraction of forest

= `5/13` fraction of forest