Question

A wood beam is divided into four equal segments. Each segment measures 3.5 feet long. What is the length of the wood beam? I also need a equation to go with it please.

Answer 1

3.5 * 4 = T

T = 14

Explanation:

For this question let T stand for the total length of the wood beam. We know that each of the sections is 3.5 feet long and there are 4 sections. One way to solve this would be to add 3.5 together 4 times. However, there is a faster way to do this. Since multiplication is just repeated addition, instead of adding 3.5 together 4 times, we can just multiply 3.5 * 4. This equals 14 feet, which must be the total length of the beam.