SOLUTION: a farmer has 1 hectare of land. one half of the land was used for planting oranges, 1/3 of the remainder was used for planting mangos while plantain was planted on the rest. Expres

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Question 1067193: a farmer has 1 hectare of land. one half of the land was used for planting oranges, 1/3 of the remainder was used for planting mangos while plantain was planted on the rest. Express the area of land used for mangoes as fraction of that used for plantain
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1/2 used for oranges
1/3 (1/2)=1/6 used for mangos.
The rest is 1/3
mangos/plantain=(1/6)/(1/3)=1/2.
1/3 of the remainder was for mangoes and 2/3 for plantain, so 1/2.