Question

A farmer owns a total of 9 1/3 acres of land. The land is separated into 7 equally sized sections. How many acres are in each section?Write your answer as a mixed number in simplest form

Answer 1

Given that a farmer owns a total of 9 1/3 acres of land

To determine the acres of land when the given total land is divided into 7 equal parts

In other to achieve this, we express the division mathematically as shown below

`(9(1)/(3))/(7)`

Convert 9 1/3 into an improper fraction as shown below:

`9(1)/(3)=(9*3+1)/(3)=(27+1)/(3)=(28)/(3)`