Question

A photograph in a magazine is 1/2 by 3/4 page. What a fraction of the page is the photograph?

Answer 1

Let's suppouse that the dimensions of the page are a and b.

From the statement, we know that a photograph in a magazine has sides:

• 1/2 a,

,

• 3/4 b.

The relation between the area of the photograph and the page is:

$\frac{\text{ Area photograph}}{\text{ Area page}}=\frac{\frac{1}{2}a\times\frac{3}{4}b}{a\times b}=\frac{1}{2}\times\frac{3}{4}=\frac{3}{8}.$

Answer

The photograph is 3/8 of the page.