Question

A newspaper’s cover page is 3/

8 text, and photographs fill the rest. If 2/
5 of the text is an article about
endangered species, what fraction of the cover page is the article about endangered species

Answer 1

The answer is 0.15

Explanation:

In this 2/5 of 3/8 is about endangered species

Therefore to obtain the answer we need to multiply the two fractions

2/5 × 3/8

Fraction of the cover page about endangered species is therefore = 2/5 × 3/8

= 0.15