Question

Nathena needs to buy a fence to put around her rectangular yard for her dog. Nathena forgot the width of his yard, but knows the legth is 30 yards. Her husband told her to buy 180 yards of fence. What is the greatest possible width for Nathena's yard?

Answer 1

The real answer is 6

Explanation:

Fairly simple. You know the length and the area, but you don't know the width. So your equation looks like this: 30 x ? = 180. But to figure out the width, you change the position of the numbers in the equation like this:

180 ÷ 30 = ?. Then you solve. 180 ÷ 30 = 6. If you want to double check your answer, you can plug in your answer to your original equation, 30 x 6 = 180.

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