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Merry and pippin were working on a project in carpentry class. they needed to cut 4 lengths of 1 5/8 feet from a board. how long must the board be to allow this?
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Merry and pippin were working on a project in carpentry class. they needed to cut 4 lengths of 1 5/8 feet from a board. how long must the board be to allow this?

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First we change 1 5/8 into an improper fraction, 13/8. Now we multiply by 4.

13/8×4/1=52/8 feet

We can change it back to proper fraction by dividing 52 by 8.
We get 6 with remainder 4.
6 4/8 =6 1/2 feet
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