SOLUTION: A farmer has 1 hectare of land.one half of the land was used for planting Oranges, one third of the remainder was used for planting mangoes while plantain was planted on the rest.

Question 1160507: A farmer has 1 hectare of land.one half of the land was used for planting Oranges, one third of the remainder was used for planting mangoes while plantain was planted on the rest.
1.express the area of land used for mangoes as a fraction of that used for plantain
2.if a labourer was given a week to weed the Orange plantation and he completes one fifth of it on the first day,what area,in square metres was left(Take 1 hectare=10,000msquare)
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1/2 for oranges
1/3 of 1/2 was left for mangoes or 1/6 of the total (multiply the two).
2/3 of 1/2 or 1/3 of the total or 2/6 of the total was given over to plantain.
mangoes is 1/2 that of plantain or (1/6)/(2/6)

The orange plantation is 5000 m^2, half of 10000 m^2.
He weeded 1/5 of the on the first day or (1/5)(5000)=1000 m^2 were weeded
so he has 5000-1000=4000m^2 left to weed.
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