Question

Devon's father is installing new wood flooring. He bought boards that are 10 ft long, 3/4 in. thick, and 11/24 in. wide. Determine the number of boards Devon's father will need for a 10 ft by 16 1/2 ft room. Plz plz help and the way to solve it plz!!!

Answer 1

36 boards

Explanation:

The boards are as long as the room, so I only had to worry about the width. If the boards were 1/2 ft wide, I would need 2 boards for every foot of width. For 16 ft, I would need 32 boards.

Instead of dividing, I wrote the equivalent multiplication by multiplying by the reciprocal of 11/24 (the reciprocal of 11/24 is 24/11)

I simplified by dividing both 2 and 24 by 2, and both 11 and 33 by 11.

Therefore he needs 36 boards