Question

There are 40 houses in a neighborhood

Company X Provide electricity to 1/8 Of the houses in this neighborhood how many houses does company at provide electricity to?

Answer 1

Company X provide electricity to 5 houses in neighborhood.

Solution :

Given that

Number of houses in neighborhood = 40

Company X Provide electricity to 1/8 of the houses in this neighborhood.

Need to determine how many houses does company provide electricity to.

Let's assume that Company X Provide electricity to y houses

As given that Company X Provide electricity to 1/8 of the houses that is 1/8 of total number of houses, we can frame expression as follows,

`y=(1)/(8) * \text { total number of houses }=(1)/(8) * 40=5`

Hence company X provide electricity to 5 houses in neighborhood