Question

A rectangular parking lot has an area of 2/3 of a square mile. The length of the parking lot is 1/4 of a mile. What is the width miles of the parking lot?

Answer 1

Answer:

The width of the rectangle parking lot is $w=\frac{8}{3}$ miles

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that area of a rectangular parking lot is $\frac{2}{3}$ square miles

and length of the parking lot is $\frac{1}{4}$ of a mile.

It can written as $A=\frac{2}{3}$ square miles  and $l=\frac{1}{4}$ miles

To find the width of the rectangular parking lot :

Area of rectangle A=lw square units

From the above equation we can write $w=\frac{A}{l}$

Now substitute the values in the above equation we get

$w=\frac{\frac{2}{3}}{\frac{1}{4}}$

$=\frac{2}{3}\times \frac{4}{1}$

$=\frac{8}{3}$

Therefore $w=\frac{8}{3}$

Therefore the width of the rectangle parking lot is $w=\frac{8}{3}$ miles