Question

You work in a furniture repair shop and are taking apart an old table to refinish it. You are trying to remove a bolt with a wrench. You tried a wrench size of 1/2 inch but found that it was slightly too big. Your wrenches are sized in 1/16 inch increments. What size wrench should you try next?

Answer 1

7/16 inches.

Explanation:

The next size smaller than 1/2 inch would be 1/2 minus 1/16 inch large.

The first step would be to make 1/2 have the same denominator as 1/16, by changing it to 8/16, an equivalent fraction.

8/16 - 1/16 is 7/16, so the wrench you should try next is 7/16 inches.