Question

Jodi is cutting out pieces of paper that measure 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches from a larger sheet of paper that has an area of 1,000 square inches. A) What is the area of each piece of paper that Jodi is cutting out? B) What is the greatest possible number of pieces of paper that Jodi can cut out of the larger sheet?

Answer 1

I did this problem before. For a, do 8 1/2 or 17/2 x 11/1 to get 93.5 inches. For b, you divide 1000 by 93.5 to get 10.6. They want to know the complete number of pieces she could make, so the answer to b is 10.