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One book is 4cm thick, find out how many such books can be placed in a space of 53cm.

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You would divide the thickness of one book (4cm) by the area you want them to fit in (53 cm).

Then getting the answer 13.25. Since we can’t have (.25 cm) of a book we can fit 13 whole books
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