Question

You plan to cut a board into 3 pieces to repair part of a railing. You are going to cut the two ends of the board off into two equal pieces that are 3.1 feet long, if the remaining piece needs to be 2.27 times longer than the each of the first two cuts what length board should you buy? Round to the nearest tenth

Answer 1

the answer might be 20

Explanation:

first you add 3.1 to 3.1 to get 6.2

then you multiply 6.2 by 2.27

then you add the answer you get from that to 3.1+3.1 to get the final length ‍to be 20.274 and that would be 20 in the nearest tenth