Question

How many 5/16 foot pieces of wood can you cut from a board that is 1 9/16 feet long

Answer 1

Answer:So 5/16 foot pieces from a 1 9/16 feet long piece of wood. OK so this is easy what we do is we do 1 9/16 divided by 5/16 which we switch 1 9/16 to 25/16 divided by 5/16 so we keep 25/16 switch the division symbol to a multiplication symbol and flip the 5/16 so now we have 25/16*16/5 which is 400/80 we can simplify to 5. So a 1 9/16 foot long board can make 5 5/16 pieces of wood.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Hi Mariram14oxksdx!
So 5/16 foot pieces from a 1 9/16 feet long piece of wood. OK so this is easy what we do is we do 1 9/16 divided by 5/16 which we switch 1 9/16 to 25/16 divided by 5/16 so we keep 25/16 switch the division symbol to a multiplication symbol and flip the 5/16 so now we have 25/16*16/5 which is 400/80 we can simplify to 5. So a 1 9/16 foot long board can make 5 5/16 pieces of wood.
Hope this helps!