In the town of Rockville, 3/5 of the students in middle school participate in organized sports after school. If 1/4 of them play basketball, what fraction of the students play basketball?

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The fraction of students that play basketball is  [tex]\mathbf{= \dfrac{1}{10}}[/tex].

What is the fraction of students that play basketball?

The fraction of students that play basketball from the given information can be determined by assuming that the whole number of students in the middle school is whole i.e. (1)

Let us first determine the number of students that participate in sports, we have:

[tex]\mathbf{=1- \dfrac{3}{5}}[/tex]

[tex]\mathbf{= \dfrac{2}{5}}[/tex]

If 1/4 of these students play basketball, then we have:

[tex]\mathbf{= \dfrac{1}{4}\times (\dfrac{2}{5})}[/tex]

[tex]\mathbf{= \dfrac{1}{10}}[/tex] students play basketball.

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