Question

A publisher requires 2⁄3 of a page of advertisements for every 5 pages in a magazine. If a magazine has 98 pages, to the nearest whole page, how many pages of the magazine are advertisements?

Answer 1

To solve this problem you must apply the proccedure shown below:

1. You have $\frac{2}{3}$ of a page of advertisements for every $5$ pages in the magazine and the it has $98$ pages. Therefore, you must multiply the total pages by $2/3$ and divide the result by $5$ pages.
2. Then:

$x:$ number of pages of the magazine are advertisements

$x=\frac{(98)(\frac{2}{3}) }{5} \\ x=13$

Therefore, the answer is: $13$ pages.