Question

A carpenter wants to cut a board that is 1 1/2

piece?
ft. long into 5 equivalent pieces. What will be the length of each

Answer 1

The length of each piece of wood will be 3.6 inches.

Explanation:

We know that there are 12 inches in a foot. We start off with a piece of wood that is 1.5 feet long, and thus we ought to multiply that number times the number of inches in a foot. 12 x 1.5 = 18. We then have to divide that into 5 pieces, which is simple enough. 18 / 5 = 3.6.