Charla wants to cover a rectangular area of her driveway with a picture using chalk. If she completes 2/3 of the area in 1/2 hour, how long will it take her to complete the entire picture? Enter your simplified fraction.

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To find out how long it will take Charla to complete the entire area of the driveway, we can start by considering how much area she completes in a specific time.

Given that Charla completes \( \frac{2}{3} \) of the area in \( \frac{1}{2} \) hour, we can determine how long it takes her to complete the entire area.

  1. First, we find the rate at which Charla works. If she completes \( \frac{2}{3} \) of the area in \( \frac{1}{2} \) hour, we can express her work rate as:

    \[ \text{Rate} = \frac{\frac{2}{3} \text{ area}}{\frac{1}{2} \text{ hour}} = \frac{2}{3} \div \frac{1}{2} \]

    Dividing by a fraction is the same as multiplying by its reciprocal:

    \[ \text{Rate} = \frac{2}{3} \times 2 = \frac{4}{3} \text{ area per hour} \]

  2. Now, we want to find out how long it takes her to complete the entire area, which we can denote as \( 1 \) area. Using the rate we calculated, we set up the equation for the time \( t \):

    \[ \text{Time} = \frac{\text{Total Area}}{\text{Rate}} = \frac{1 \text{ area}}{\frac{4}{3} \text{ area per hour}} \]

    This simplifies to:

    \[ \text{Time} = 1 \times \frac{3}{4} = \frac{3}{4} \text{ hour} \]

Thus, it will take Charla \( \frac{3}{4} \) hour to complete the entire picture.

\[ \boxed{\frac{3}{4}} \]