Question

David has a piece of wood measuring 12 1/8 feet that he wants to use for a project. He needs to cut the wood into pieces that measure 1 13/16 feet.

How many pieces of wood can he cut measuring exactly 1 13/16 feet?

Answer 1

So, it would be the wisest to work in decimals for this problem.

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So we have to divide 12.125 by 1.8125 to see how many times the latter goes into the former.
`(12.125)/(1.8125)\approx 6.68965517`

So, since the problem asks for how many lengths can go in without remainder, our answer would simply be 6.