Proportion

Question

A piece of land is to be divided between two men in the ratio 5:9 what fraction of the second lose if the land is divided instead in ratio 9:5..

Answer 1

The first person gets 5/14 of the land, the second person gets 9/14 of the land.

If the division goes the other way, the second person gets 5/14 of the land, losing 4/14 or 2/7 of what he would have gotten the other way.