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Mia is building a three-sided shelter for her action figures. The shelter will resemble a rectangle with one of the long sides removed. She has boards that measure 36 inches, 39 inches, and 42 inches in length; all the boards are the same width. Mia will need to convert some of these measurements into other imperial units to build the shelter the way she wants.

Mia will use one of these boards for the length of the shelter. She knows she wants the length of the shelter to measure 3.25 feet. She will use a different board for the width of the shelter. The width of the shelter will be shorter than the length.

Which board will Mia use for the length of the shelter, given that 1 foot = 12 inches?

What is the width of the shelter, measured in feet?

Mia needs to cut the third board to match the width of the shelter. How many feet of board will she need to cut off the existing board to reach this goal?

Answer 1

so, she has three boards, 36, 39 and 42 inches, hmmm but she wants the length or longer side to be 3.25 ft, hmmm 36 ÷ 12 is just 3, so that won't do, 42 ÷ 12 is 3.5 ft, nope not that one, 39 ÷ 12 is 3.25, well, that's our board.

so the width has to be smaller than the length, and it has to be a full board, so since we used the 39 incher already, smaller than 39 is 36, so we'll use the 36 incher for the width, that is, the 3 feet one.

From the 3rd board, Mia is going to have to make it match with the 36 incher, that means she needs to saw it off by 6 inches, 42 - 6 = 36, and 6 inches is just 6 ÷ 12 = 0.5 feet.

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