Question

Phil has a strip of wood trim that is 16 ft long. He needs 5 foot pieces to trim some windows. What are the possible numbers of pieces he can cut.

Answer 1

3

Explanation:

16 divided by 5 is 3 with a remainder of 1 but you can just ignore it if were talking about whole pieces of wood

Answer 2

Phil can cut 3 full pieces of wood.

Explanation:

16/5=3.2

He needs 5 foot ones so he cant use the .2 so it would be 3 pieces of wood