A rectangular tabletop has a length of 4 3/4 feet and an area of 11 7/8 square feet. What is the width of the tabletop❓❔❓❔❓❔
2 1/2
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To find the width of the tabletop, we can use the formula for the area of a rectangle, which is length multiplied by width.
Given that the length of the tabletop is 4 3/4 feet and the area is 11 7/8 square feet, we can set up the equation:
4 3/4 * width = 11 7/8
To easily solve this equation, we need to convert the mixed numbers into improper fractions.
4 3/4 can be written as (4*4 + 3)/4 = 19/4
11 7/8 can be written as (11*8 + 7)/8 = 95/8
Now our equation becomes:
19/4 * width = 95/8
To eliminate the fractions, we can multiply both sides of the equation by the least common multiple (LCM) of the denominators, which in this case is 8.
8 * (19/4 * width) = 8 * (95/8)
Simplifying, we get:
19/2 * width = 95
To solve for width, we can isolate it by dividing both sides of the equation by 19/2:
width = 95 / (19/2)
To divide by a fraction, we can multiply by its reciprocal.
width = 95 * (2/19)
Finally, we can multiply:
width = 190/19
The width of the tabletop is 10 feet.