Question

A man uses 5/9 of his land for growing mangoes 2/5 for growing bananas remaining 24 hectares for growing oranges
(1) How much land does he have?
(2)How much land does he use for growing mangoes?

Answer 1

let be area of field is 'x' then use in growing of mangos field area is 5x/9and the area of bananas is 2x/5 and left field I.e. orange is 24. now, area of mangos +area of bananas +area of orange = total area of field. so, 5x/9 +2x/5 +24=x, then silver the eq the value of x is 540h. the field use in mangos is 5x/9= 300 h.