Question

In a bookstore,60identical books occupy a length of 1.5m on a shelf. find the length occupied by 50 such books on a shelf

Answer 1

The 50 books would occupy a length of 1.25 m

From this we can set up an equation that looks like this $\frac{60}{1.5} =\frac{50}{x}$

From here, we can cross multiply and get $60x =75$

Next we can divide each side by 60 to get our answer

$x=1.25$