Question

Arvind sells newspapers at the bus stand daily. On a particular day, he had $232$ newspapers out of which $128$ are in English and the remaining in Hindi. Find the ratio of the number of English newspapers to the number of Hindi newspapers.

Answer 1

Total number of newspapers = $232$

Number of English newspapers = $128$

Number of Hindi newspapers = $232-128$

= $104$

The ratio of the number of English newspapers to the number of Hindi newspapers = $\frac{\text{number of English newspaper}}{\text{number of Hindi newspapers}}$

= $\frac{128}{104}$

= $\frac{2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2}{2\times 2\times 2\times 13}$

= $\frac{16}{13}$

= $16:13$

Hence, the ratio of the number of English newspapers to the number of Hindi newspapers $16:13$.