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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.
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Solution
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
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