Eleanor and Max used two rectangular wooden boards to make a set for the school play. One board was 6 feet long, and the other was 5 1/2 feet long. The two boards had equal widths. The total area of the set was 60 3/8 square feet. What was the width?
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To find the **width of the boards, **we can use the formula for finding the area of a rectangle and set up an equation. Solving the equation will give us the width of the boards. ;
To find the width of the wooden boards, we used the area formula for rectangles and set up an equation based on their lengths and the total area. After solving, we found the width to be approximately 5.25 feet. This calculation involved converting mixed numbers to improper fractions and combining like terms before isolating the variable for width.
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