A certain country is divided into 8 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 1/12 the total number of Progressives in the entire country, what fraction of the country is Traditionalist?  Select
A) 1 / 5  B) 1 / 3  C) 1 / 2  D) 2 / 3  E) 3 / 5

Rationale: "let p be the number of progressives in the country as a whole . in each province , the number of traditionalists is p / 12 the total number of traditionalists is 8 p / 12 = 2 p / 3 . the total population is p + 2 p / 3 = 5 p / 3 p / ( 5 p / 3 ) = 3 / 5 the answer is e ."
Answer: E