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A farmer owns a total of 9 1/3 acres of land. The land is separated into 7 equally sized sections. How many acres are in each section?Write your answer as a mixed number in simplest form

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Given that a farmer owns a total of 9 1/3 acres of land

To determine the acres of land when the given total land is divided into 7 equal parts

In other to achieve this, we express the division mathematically as shown below

[tex]\frac{9\frac{1}{3}}{7}[/tex]

Convert 9 1/3 into an improper fraction as shown below:

[tex]9\frac{1}{3}=\frac{9\times3+1}{3}=\frac{27+1}{3}=\frac{28}{3}[/tex]

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