SOLUTION: A field that has an area of 8.0 hectares has a length of 400m. What is the width of the field in meter?(1ha=10000m^2)

Question 670609: A field that has an area of 8.0 hectares has a length of 400m. What is the width of the field in meter?(1ha=10000m^2)
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

notice how the units (meters in this case) is treated as just another variable. This is important. Because if the units you get at the end don't 'make sense', you probably made a mistake somewhere.
Here we see the width is expressed in meters -- which is a valid units for length
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