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A soccer field has an area of 5/9 sqaure miles.The length of the field is 1/7 miles. What is the width of the soccer field? Please Explain-For my son

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Simple. If Length times Width = Area, Area divided by length = width.

First, multiply everything by a common multiple, as multiplying/dividing with fractions isn't fun. I'll multiply by 63, the least common multiple of 7 and 9.

35 divided by 9 = 3.88 (the 8 infinitely repeats, so you may want to round to 3.89.)
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