Take the amount that he pays for his mortgage, so $2042, and divide that by his total pay, $5950. You’ll get .34016907. Then to make a decimal into a percentage, you multiply it by 100. This gives you 34%, meaning he spends less than the national average on housing.
48:24 = 24:12 = 12:6 = 6:3 (divide each number by 2 or multiply by 2)
The prime factorization for 135 is 3,3,3, and 5.
The gcf of 24 and 48 is 24