Question

A forest has 6500 trees
The trees are beech or maple.
number of beech : number of maple = 1.6 : 1

(a) What fraction of the trees are beech?

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

Given

There are a total of 6500 trees

The ratio of beech and maple is 1.6:11.6:1

So, no of beech are   \frac{1.6}{2.6}\times 6500=40002.61.6×6500=4000

no of maple are   \frac{1}{2.6}\times 6500=25002.61×6500=2500