A carpenter has a board that is 2/3 yard wide. He cuts the board into 5 pieces. If all the pieces are the same width, how wide is each piece?

Step-by-step explanation:

We have a board that is yards long. If we want to cut the board into 5 equal pieces, we must divide  by 5.

5 is the same thing as , so:

To divide a fraction by a fraction, we multiply by the reciprocal. This means we take the reciprocal of and multiply the two fractions.

The reciprocal of  is - we swap the numerator and denominator.

Multiply the numerator and denominators to get our final fraction:

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