Question

Mr. Trainer is building a bookcase. He has two wooden boards that are each 8 feet long. He needs to cut the wooden boards into pieces that are 16 inches long. What is the greatest number of 16-inch pieces that Mr. Trainer can cut from the two wooden boards? (1 foot = 12 inches)

Answer 1

12

Explanation:

Length of one of the boards = 8 feet

Converting to inches

`1\ \text{foot}=12\ \text{inches}\\\Rightarrow 8\ \text{feet}=8* 12=96\ \text{inches}`

One cut is 16 inches

So, we divide the length of the board by 16

`(96)/(16)=6`

So, one board is cut into 6 pieces.

The other board is also 8 feet long.

So, the number of pieces the other board is cut into is also 6.

Hence, a total of
`6+6=12` pieces of each 16 inches long can be cut from the two boards.