You are trying to find out the width of the space. So what you want to do is since you know the area like the other person who answered this question, you can set it up as 70= 14 times x? X is the variable and in which case x is the width you are trying to figure out. You can figure it out this way by trying to figure out what x is in this problem. Or you can set it up as 70 divided by 14, since you know the area and you also know the length. Either way you setup the problem is fine, you choose, they will still give the same answer. So the width is 5 feet. c; I hope this helps, have a good day. c;