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 1.1 feet long, if the remaining piece needs to be 2.30 times longer than the each of the first two cuts what length board should you buy? Round to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

The board should be 4.7 feet long.

Explanation:

To find the remaining piece, you just multiply 1.1 by 2.3 which is 2.53. That's the length of the remaining piece.

Then you add all the pieces together.

1.1+1.1+2.53 =

4.73

Round and add label.

4.7 feet