SOLUTION: The area of a rectangular field is 9000 square meters. If the ratio of the width to the length is 5 is to 8, what is the length of the rectangular field in meters?
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Question 494261: The area of a rectangular field is 9000 square meters. If the ratio of the width to the length is 5 is to 8, what is the length of the rectangular field in meters? Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Since you have the ratio of the width to the length, this is 5 t0 8, then you know that the width is some multiple of 5 and the length is the same multiple of 8.
We'll let this multiple be x, so you have and , and the area is expressed as: Simplify and solve for x: Divide both sides by 40. Take the square root of both sides. This is the multiple, so... = This is the width, W. = This is the length, L.
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