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?

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Answered on Thu Mar 17 2022

Let the cover page be x

then, newspaper’s cover page is 3/8 x

According to question, 2/5 of the text is an article

Thus, fraction of page which is an article about endangered species = 3/8 × 2/5

= 6/40

= 3/20

Thus, 3/20 of the page is an article about endangered species.