Question

jamar has an 8-foot long piece of wood that he wants to cut to build a stepstool for his tree house if each piece is going to be 5/6 what is the greatest number of pieces will he be able to use?

Answer 1

The greates amount of pieces he would be able to use would be 9 because 8 divided by 5/6= 9 and 3/5.the 3/5 piece is too short.

Answer 2

greatest number of pieces will be 9 that he can use.

Explanation:

Jamar has a piece of wood, 8 foot long.

He wants to build a step stool for his tree house by cutting the pieces of the wood
`(5)/(6)` foot long each.

Number of pieces of the wood =
`\frac{\text{length of wood}}{\text{length of each piece}}`

=
`(8)/((5)/(6))`

=
`8* (6)/(5)`

=
`(48)/(5)`

=
`9(3)/(5)`

Number of pieces will be 9 full pieces and a fraction of piece.

Therefore, greatest number of pieces will be 9 which Jamar can use.