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The ratio of the length of an airplane wing to its width is 8 to 1. If the length of a wing is 31.8 meters, how wide must it be?The airplane wing must be ____ meters wide.(Round to the nearest hundredth.)

Respuesta :

Given

The ratio of the length of an airplane wing to its width is 8 : 1

length of the wing = 31.8 m

Find

how wide must it be?

Explanation

as we have given the ration of length to width = 8 : 1

let width be x m

so ,

[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{8}{1}=\frac{31.8}{x} \\ 8x=31.8 \\ x=3.975 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Final Answer

Hence , the airplane wing must be 3.98 meters wide.

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