How-to books make up 0.3 of the books in the school library. Of these how-to books, 0.2 deal with carpentry and 0.4 deal with electronics.

0.3×0.4=0.12

Interpret what the answer 0.12 represents in this equation above.

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The answer 0.12 represents the proportion of how-to books in the school library that deal with both carpentry and electronics.