Question

How many complete sections of wiremold can be cut from a 5 foot long piece that you remove from the shipping box? each section will need to be cut so that it it 1'-23/8'

Answer 1

To calculate the number of complete sections that can be cut from a 5-foot piece of wiremold, we convert the target section length to feet, divide the total length by the section length, and find that we can cut a maximum of 4 complete sections.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many complete sections of wiremold can be cut from a 5-foot long piece of wiremold, we first need to convert the target length of each section to feet. The target length is 1'-2 3/8", which can be converted to feet by recognizing that 2 3/8 inches is 2.375 inches, and there are 12 inches in a foot. Therefore, 2.375 inches is 2.375 / 12 = 0.1979166667 feet. Adding this to the 1 foot for each section gives us a total of 1.1979166667 feet per section.

Now we can divide the total length of the wiremold piece (5 feet) by the length of each section:

5 feet / 1.1979166667 feet per section = approximately 4.17 sections.

Since we cannot have a fraction of a section, we can only cut a maximum of 4 complete sections from the 5-foot wiremold.