Question

The area of a patio is 5 5/8 square yards and its length is 1 1/2 yards. What is the patios width in yards?

Answer 1

area = length x width
if the area is 5 5/8, and the length is 1 1/2, all you have to do to find the width is divide the area by the length.
5 5/8 / 1 1/2 = 3 3/4 yards

hope this helped!!

Answer 2

The formula to find the area of a rectangle is
Area=length*width
( area equals length times width)

So you substitute the values in the problem into the equation above.
5 5/8=1 1/2* w

Then you can solve the equation by dividing the 5 5/8 by the 1 1/2, cancelling out 1 1/2 and leaving the w by itself on one half of the equal sign
You are left with
3 3/4 = w

The width of the patio in yards is 3 3/4.
(Just ask if you have more questions or I didn't explain something clearly)