Question

a famer plants 0.5 of a field with corn . of that corn, 0.3 is sweet corn what part of the Field is sweet corn ?

Answer 1

Let the farm plant be represented with P

corn occupies 0.5 of the field = 0.5 x P => 0.5P

of this 0.5P, 0.3 of this portion is sweet corn

=> 0.3 x 0.5P

= 0.15P

Hence, sweet corn occupies 0.15

or

0.15 % of the field