document.write( "Question 1044439: In a library the ratio of Sinhalese books to English books is 5:3 if all the English books are novels and 1/10 of the Sinhala books are not novels. what is the proportion of books that are novels?
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If the ratio of Sinhalese books to English books is 5:3,
\n" ); document.write( "the English books are \"3%2F%285%2B3%29=3%2F8\" of all the books.
\n" ); document.write( "Those are all novels.
\n" ); document.write( "Of the remaining \"5%2F8\" of the books, \"1%2F10\" are not novels,
\n" ); document.write( "and the other \"1-1%2F10=9%2F10\" are novels.
\n" ); document.write( "Since the Sinhalese books are \"5%2F8\" of the total,
\n" ); document.write( "\"9%2F10\" of them are novels,
\n" ); document.write( "\"%289%2F10%29%285%2F8%29=9%2F16\" of all the books are Sinhalese novels.
\n" ); document.write( "The novels are \"3%2F8%2B9%2F16=6%2F16%2B9%2F16=highlight%2815%2F16%29\" of all the books in the library.
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