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A piece of wood is 12 feet long, and a nail is 3 inches long. The piece of wood is how many times as long as the nail?

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Answer:

4

Explanation:

you take the length of the wood and divide it by the length of the nail, so 12 divided by 3 well you can also skip-count until you reach 12, regardless you get 4

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Answer:

the piece of wood is 48 times as long as the nail.

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