document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1160507>Question 1160507</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> 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.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "1.express the area of land used for mangoes as a fraction of that used for plantain<BR>\n" );
document.write( "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) </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "1/3 of 1/2 was left for mangoes or 1/6 of the total (multiply the two).<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2/3 of 1/2 or 1/3 of the total or 2/6 of the total was given over to plantain.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "mangoes is 1/2 that of plantain or (1/6)/(2/6)\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The orange plantation is 5000 m^2, half of 10000 m^2.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "He weeded 1/5 of the on the first day or (1/5)(5000)=1000 m^2 were weeded<BR>\n" );
document.write( "so he has 5000-1000=4000m^2 left to weed. </SPAN>\n" );
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