In a school library, there are 3 Chinese Language books for every 5 English Language books. The number of Malay Language book is 5/9 as many as the Chinese Language books. Find the ratio of the number of Malay Language books to the number of English Language books.

Question

(Express your answer in its simplest form.)

Answer 1

let number of Chinese books be 3x
let the number of English books be 5x
number of Malay books = (5/9)(3x) = (5/3)x

Malay books : English books
= (5/3)x : 5x
= 5x : 15x
= 5 : 15
= 1 : 3