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Farmer McDonald is building a fence around his pasture he is placing posts 6 feet apart and will stretch wire between them if the pasture is 36 yards long and 14 yards across, how many posts will Farmer
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Farmer McDonald is building a fence around his pasture he is placing posts 6 feet apart and will stretch wire between them if the pasture is 36 yards long and 14 yards across, how many posts will Farmer McDonald need?

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16 because
Draw a diagram, something like this. Let . represent each post.
. . . . - . . - . . - . . - . . - . . . .
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well 36 divided by 6 is 6 so multiply that by two and you get 12 14 divided by 6 is 2.3 round that to 2 and multiply it by 2 you get 4 4 +12 is 16 so 16 should be your answer 
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