Question

A bookshop has 4/8 books on literature and 2/5 on fiction .If there are 12,480 books in all, find the number of books of each kind.

Answer 1

Answer :

Given : A bookshop has $\frac{4}{8}$ books on literature and $\frac{2}{5}$ on fiction .
And
Total number of books = 12,480

So,

Total number of books on literature = $\frac{4}{8}\times 12480=4\times 1560=\mathbf{}\mathbf{6240}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{(}\mathbf{}\mathit{A}\mathit{n}\mathit{s}\mathbf{}\mathbf{)}\mathbf{}$
And
Total number of books on fiction = $\frac{2}{5}\times 12480=2\times 2496=\mathbf{}\mathbf{4992}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{}\mathbf{(}\mathbf{}\mathit{A}\mathit{n}\mathit{s}\mathbf{}\mathbf{)}\mathbf{}$