Question

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Wallpaper comes in rolls that are 1 3/4 feet wide. How many side-by-side strips of wallpaper are needed to paper a wall that is 15 feet wide? ( Show work)

Answer 1

in essence, how many times does 1¾ go into 15?

first off, let's convert the mixed fraction to improper, and then divide them.

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