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A farmer has one square mile of land.

If he divides his land into square fields that are 1
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2 mile long and 1
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2
mile wide,how many fields will he have?

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a field that is ½ by ½ has an area of ½*½ or namely ¼.


now, the farmer has 1 m² of land, if he divides it in ½ by ½ plots, how many of those plots will there be? namely how many times ¼ goes into 1?



\bf 1/ \cfrac{1}{4}\implies 1\cdot \cfrac{4}{1}\implies 4

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