Question

British columbia is about 1/11 of the size of canada. Vancouver island is about 1/29 the size of british columbia. What fraction of the land of canada is vancouver island

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Answer 1

well, BC is in Canada and is 1/11.

Vancouver is in BC and is 1/29 of BC.

so Vancouver is then 1/29 of 1/11, how much is that? well, is simply their product.

`\bf \cfrac{1}{29}\cdot \cfrac{1}{11}\implies \cfrac{1}{319}`