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# A certain country is divided into 5 provinces. Each province consists

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A certain country is divided into 5 provinces. Each province consists entirely of Progressives and Traditionalists. If each province contains the same number of Traditionalists and the number of Traditionalists in any given province is 1/10 the total number of Progressives in the entire country, what fraction of the country is Traditionalist?

A) 1/5
B) 1/3
C) 1/2
D) 2/3
E) 4/5
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Harley1980 wrote:
A certain country is divided into 5 provinces. Each province consists entirely of Progressives and Traditionalists. If each province contains the same number of Traditionalists and the number of Traditionalists in any given province is 1/10 the total number of Progressives in the entire country, what fraction of the country is Traditionalist?

A) 1/5
B) 1/3
C) 1/2
D) 2/3
E) 4/5

Dear Harley1980,
This is a great question, and I am happy to help.

There is some number of Progressives in the country as a whole. Call that number P.

In each province, the number of traditionalists is P/10 = 0.1*P

In five provinces, the number of traditionalist would be that times five, 0.5*P. In other words, the number of traditionalist is half the number of progressives.

Let T be the total number of traditionalists. Then P = 2T, and the total population in the country is 3T. T is 1/3 of this. OA = (B).

Does all this make sense?
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Harley1980 wrote:
A certain country is divided into 5 provinces. Each province consists entirely of Progressives and Traditionalists. If each province contains the same number of Traditionalists and the number of Traditionalists in any given province is 1/10 the total number of Progressives in the entire country, what fraction of the country is Traditionalist?

A) 1/5
B) 1/3
C) 1/2
D) 2/3
E) 4/5

Let T be the number of traditionalists in 1 province and P1, P2, P3,P4,P5 be the number of progressives in the 5 provinces.

Total P = P1+P2+P3+P4+P5

Per the question, T = P/10 ---> P =10T

Thus fraction of traditionalists = Total number of traditionalists / Total People = $$\frac{5T}{5T+P}$$ =$$\frac{5T}{5T+10T}$$ = 1/3. B is the correct answer.
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Hi All,

This question can be solved by TESTing VALUES.

We're given a series of facts to work with:
1) There are 5 provinces
2) Each province includes a certain number of Progressives and a certain number of Traditionalists
3) Each province has the SAME number of Traditionalists; the number of Traditionalists in each province = 1/10 the TOTAL number of Progressives in the ENTIRE COUNTRY.

If we say that each province has 10 Traditionalists in it, then we can calculate the TOTAL number of Progressives in the ENTIRE COUNTRY....

10 = (1/10)(ALL Progressives)
100 = All Progressives

Since there are 5 provinces, each with 10 Traditionalists in it, there are (5)(10) = 50 Total Traditionalists

50 Traditionalists + 100 Progressives = 150 Total people.

Since we're asked for the fraction that is Traditionalists.... 50/150 = 1/3

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A certain country is divided into 5 provinces. Each province consists entirely of Progressives and Traditionalists. If each province contains the same number of Traditionalists and the number of Traditionalists in any given province is 1/10 the total number of Progressives in the entire country, what fraction of the country is Traditionalist?

A) 1/5
B) 1/3
C) 1/2
D) 2/3
E) 4/5

traditionalists let's say is X in each province. 5 provinces = 5x.
let's say progressives in each province is Y. total progressives in all provinces = 5y.
we are told that x (traditionalists in each province) is equal to 1/10 of the total progressives (5y) so x=5y/10 or y/2. since we have 5x total = 5y/2.
the total number of population is thus 5y+5y/2 or 15y/2. now..we need to find the ratio of traditionalists to total number of people.
5y/2 divide by 15y/2 = 1/3. B.

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