35 feet wide by 50 feet long. What is the ratio of the length to the perimeter in simplest form?

For rectangular shapes the formula for perimeter would be

P = 2Length + 2 Width

since a rectangle would have 4 sides having the equal upper and lowers sides being the length and the equal left and right side being the width

Knowing this we look at the given

Our length is 50 ft and our width is 35 ft

Solving for the perimeter we have

P = 2 (50) + 2 (35)

P = 100 + 70

P = 170ft

The ratio of the length to the perimeter is simply Lenght:Perimeter or Length/Perimeter

We have

50:170

50/170

Reducing it to its simplest form

(L/P) = 5/17