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A garden is 3 yards 12 inches wide and 8 yards long. Write the ratio of the width to the length as a fraction in simplest form.

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-- On the width:
3 yards = 9 feet
12 inches = another 1 foot
Total width = 10 feet

-- On the length:
8 yards = 24 feet

Ratio of width to length = (10 feet) / (24 feet)

= 5 / 12 .
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