9514 1404 393
Answer:
"and"
Step-by-step explanation:
Properly written, the word "and" separates the integer portion from the fractional portion of the number. If there is no "and", then there is no integer portion, so the number is a fraction less than 1.
<u>Examples</u>:
one <em>and</em> three tenths = 1 3/10
thirty-one thousandths = 31/1000
Let
be the length of the rectangle and
be the width. In the problem it is given that
. It is also given that the area
. Substituting in the length in terms of width, we have
. Using the zero product property,
. Solving these we get the width
. However, it doesn't make sense for the width to be negative, so the width must be
. From that we can tell the length
.
To get the answer we can use proportion
10 large ------------- 14 small
x large -------------- 35 small
crossmultiply
10*35=x*14
350=14x /:14
350:14=14x:14
25=x-its the answer
