Question

Jared is putting a new deck off the kitchen. The deck will be 94.95 inches deep. He will use 16 boards that are each 5.7 inches wide. He has to leave a small space between the boards. If the 15 spaces between the boards are all equal , how wide will they be?

Answer 1

`94.95-16*5.7\\94.95-91.2\\3.75\\\\(3.75)/(15)\\((15)/(4))/(15)\\(15)/(60)\\(1)/(4)\\0.25`

Total space is 3.75 inches. Each space is 0.25 inches.