Question

The area of a rectangular city park is 25/54 square miles. The length if the park is 5/9 of a mile. What is the width in miles, of the park?

Answer 1

Plug the values into the area formula for a rectangle.


`A=lw`


`(25)/(54)=\frac59w`

Divide by 5/9. (Dividing by a fraction is the same as multiplying by its reciprocal, or flipped version of the fraction, 9/5)


`(225)/(270)=w`

Simplify.


`(225)/(270)=(45)/(54)=\boxed{\frac56\ mi}`