Question

1. A board is 10.17 feet long. Sandy needs

to cut the board into 3 equal sections.

How long will each section be? How

many sections would be needed for each

section of the 10.17-foot-long board to

be 5.085 feet each? Write an equation to

model your work.

Answer 1

3.39 ft, 2

Explanation:

Given that a board is 10.17 feet long. Sandy needs

to cut the board into 3 equal sections.

Let x be the length of each piece then we have

`3x=10.17\\x = 3.39` ft

Each section would be 3.39 feet long.

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When each is 5.085 feet let y be the number of pieces

Then

`5.085 y = 10.17\\y =2`

Two sections would be needed