Question

Jessie has a piece of wood that is 8 feet long. He needs to cut pieces that are 7/8 of a foot long. How many pieces will he be able to make?

Answer 1

8 / (7/8) =
8 * 8/7 =
64/7 =
9.14.....so he can cut 9 full pieces

Answer 2

9 full pieces.

Explanation:

In order to solve this we have to divide the total feets of wood that Jessie has, by the size of the pieces that Jessie needs:

`(8)/((7)/(8) )\\((8)/(1) )/((7)/(8) )\\(8*8)/(7*1)\\(64)/(7) =9.14`

Since Jessie will be able to cut 9.14 pieces of wood, he will have only 9 full pieces, so the total amount of pieces that he would be able to cut will be 9.