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In a college having 300 students, every student reads 5 newspapers and every newspaper is read by 60 students. The number of newspapers..?

..required is?

The answer is 25. Could you please tell me how.

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  • 2 weeks ago

    There are 300 students, and each student reads 5 newspapers, 

    so there are 1500 instances of a student reading a newspaper. 

     

    But every newspaper is read by only 60 students, 

    so to get those 1500 student readings of newspapers requires 

    1500/60 = 25 newspapers.

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