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you have 18 feet long and 1 foot wide . you cut five equal -sized shelves from it and have six inches of wood left how many feet wide are each shelf

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Answer:

0.1 feet (or 1.2 inches) wide

Explanation:

If you have an 18-foot long piece of wood that is 1 foot wide, and you cut five equal-sized shelves from it, leaving 6 inches of wood remaining, we can calculate the width of each shelf.

First, let's convert the measurements to the same unit. Since we are dealing with feet, let's convert the 6 inches to feet. There are 12 inches in a foot, so 6 inches is equal to 6/12 = 0.5 feet.

To calculate the width of each shelf, we need to subtract the total amount of wood remaining (0.5 feet) from the original width of the piece of wood (1 foot), and then divide the result by the number of shelves (5).

Width of each shelf = (Original width - Remaining wood) / Number of shelves

  • Width of each shelf = (1 foot - 0.5 feet) / 5
  • Width of each shelf = 0.5 feet / 5
  • Width of each shelf = 0.1 feet

Therefore, each shelf would be 0.1 feet (or 1.2 inches) wide.

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