Question

The Bricklayer needs 100 pieces of angle, each to be cut 54 3 / 16 long. How many can be cut from a 20' length (do not include waste or thickness of cut)? How many pieces of 20' angle are needed in order to have the 100 pieces?

Answer 1

To cut 54 3/16 long angles from a 20' length, 4 pieces can be cut.

25 pieces of 20' angle are needed to have 100 pieces.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many pieces can be cut from a 20' length, we need to convert the length to the same units as the desired piece length.

There are 12 inches in a foot, so a 20' length is equal to 240 inches.

Next, we divide the length by the desired piece length:

240 / 54 3/16

= 4.432.

Since we can't have a fraction of a piece, we round down to the nearest whole number.

Therefore, we can cut 4 pieces from a 20' length.

To find out how many pieces of 20' angle are needed to have 100 pieces, we divide 100 by the number of pieces that can be cut from a 20' length:

100 / 4 = 25.

So, 25 pieces of 20' angle are needed to have 100 pieces.