Question

Rusty's hair grows at the rate of 1 over 4 inch per month.

How many months will it take Rusty's hair to grow 5 over 8 inch?

Explain your answer using words, and show your work using division of fractions

Answer 1

I got the answer 0.388888... by divided 7 by 18. (1) I added a zero to 7. (2)I times 3 to 18 to make 54 and subtracted my dividend by this. (3)The answer was 160 which I subtracted by 18x8 which equals 144. The answer of the was 160 and I could go on and on repeating step 3.

Explanation:

I got the answer 0.388888... by divided 7 by 18. (1) I added a zero to 7. (2)I times 3 to 18 to make 54 and subtracted my dividend by this. (3)The answer was 160 which I subtracted by 18x8 which equals 144. The answer of the was 160 and I could go on and on repeating step 3.

Answer 2

5 months

Explanation:

because 1,1,1,1,1 = 5 4,4=8 5/8