Question

The official width-to-length ratio of the United States flag is 1:1.9. If a United States flag was 9.5 feet long, how wide would it be? ...?

Answer 1

Ok so lets say that w will denote the actual width. we can rewrite
1:1.9 as 1/1.9=10/19 so:
10/19=w/9.5
or we can also write it as,
10/19=10w/95
If you try to solve the equation to get the value of w, it would be 5 at the end.