Question

A photograph in a magazine is 1/2 by 3/4 page. What a fraction of the page is the photograph?

Answer 1

Let's suppouse that the dimensions of the page are a and b.

From the statement, we know that a photograph in a magazine has sides:

• 1/2 a,

,

• 3/4 b.

The relation between the area of the photograph and the page is:

`\frac{\text{ Area photograph}}{\text{ Area page}}=((1)/(2)a*(3)/(4)b)/(a* b)=(1)/(2)*(3)/(4)=(3)/(8).`

Answer

The photograph is 3/8 of the page.