Question

The daily listening audience of an AM radio station is five times as large as that of its FM sister station. If 144,000 people listen to these two radio stations, how many listeners does the FM station have?

Answer 1

The number of FM listereners are 24000.

Explanation:

Let the listeners of FM are p and thus the istereners of AM are 5p.

According to the question,

p + 5 p = 144000

6 p = 144000

p = 24000

The number of FM listereners are 24000.