Question

A stick is 3 2/5inches in length. A carpenter will cut off 5/8 of the stick. How long is the part to be cut off? Answer thisquestion with a fraction of an inch.

Answer 1

for this problem we know that a stick is 3 2/5 in of length. And a carpenter cut off 5/8 of the stick and we want to find the lenght of the part that would be cut off. First we convert 3 2/5 into this fraction:

`3(2)/(5)in=((3\cdot5)+2)/(5)=(17)/(5)in`

And now in order to find the desired length we can do the following operation:

`(5)/(8)\cdot(17)/(5)in=(17)/(8)in=2.125in`

So then the answer for this case would be 17/8 of inch