Question

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.)

Answer 1

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 ,

$\begin{gathered} \frac{8}{1}=\frac{31.8}{x} \\ 8x=31.8 \\ x=3.975 \end{gathered}$

Final Answer

Hence , the airplane wing must be 3.98 meters wide.