Question

A walkway is 4 feet wide and is paved with square stones that are eight inches wide. How many stones wide is the path?

Answer 1

6 Stones

Explanation:

It is given that a walkaway is 4 feet wide.

It is paved with square stones that are eight inches wide.

So let us convert 8 inches into feet.

We know that 1 inch = 0.0833 foot

So 8 inches =
`8* 0.0833 = 0.667` foot.

Now, to cover the width of 4 feet we need,

`(4)/(0.6667) = 6` stones.

So to cover the width of 4 feet we need 6 stones.

We can also say that walkway is 6 stones wide.