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Jeremy has two 7 foot long boards. He needs to cut pieces that are 15 inches long from the boards. What is the greatest number of 15 inch pieces he can cut from the two boards ?
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Jeremy has two 7 foot long boards. He needs to cut pieces that are 15 inches long from the boards. What is the greatest number of 15 inch pieces he can cut from the two boards ?

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Your correct answer you should get is 5.6. Hope this helps. :)
User Nicolas Zozol
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The most he could get is 5 pieces.

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change 7 foot to inches which it 84
then you do
84 divided by 15 you should get 5.6
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