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A rancher is putting a fence around a square animal pen. The perimeter of the pen is 32 feet. The fence posts will be 16 inches apart. She starts by putting 1 fence post at each corner of the pen. How many fence posts dose she use altogether? DRAW A PICTURE TO MODEL THE PROBLEM.

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21 fence posts. i dont know how to draw a picture on this site, but you covert 16in to ft and then divide 32 by 1.5
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