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A carpenter needs to make 60 dowels. each dowel must be 6 inches long. the wood from which the carpenter will cut the dowels comes in 4 foot lenghts. what is the least number of 4 foot lenghts of wood the carpenter can buy and still make all 69 dowels

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The carpenter would have to buy 8 dowels that are 4 foot in length. 
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