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  • Samira sells newspapers at Janpath crossing daily. On a particular day, she had 312 newspapers out of which 216 are in English and remaining in Hindi. Find the ratio of (a) the number of English newspapers to the number of Hindi newspapers.

Samira sells newspapers at Janpath crossing daily. On a particular day, she had 312 newspapers out of which 216 are in English and remaining in Hindi. Find the ratio of
(a) the number of English newspapers to the number of Hindi newspapers.
(b) the number of Hindi newspapers to the total number of newspapers.

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Given: Number of total newspapers = 312

Number of English newspapers =216

Number of Hindi newspapers =312-216 = 96
(a) Ratio of  the number of English newspapers to the number of Hindi newspapers

\frac{\text { Number of English newspapers }}{\text { Number of Hindi newspapers }} =\frac{216}{96}=\frac{9}{4}=9: 4
(b) Ratio of  the number of Hindi newspapers to the total number of newspapers.


\frac{\text { Number of Hindi newspapers }}{\text { Total number of newspapers }} =\frac{96}{312}=\frac{4}{13}=4: 13

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