What is the area of a workshop that is 4 yard wide and 5 2/3 yard long

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Solution

For this case we can start doing this:

$5(2)/(3)=(5\cdot3+2)/(3)=(17)/(3)$

and then we can find the are on this way:

$A=(17)/(3)yd\cdot4yd=(68)/(3)yd^2$

And we can rewrite this expression as:

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