Homework Help: math

Posted by lucy on Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 7:53pm.

The length of the longest loaf bread measured 1.405 ft 1 1/2 in. It was cut into slices 1/2 in.think. how many slices were there?

math - PsyDAG, Friday, September 7, 2012 at 12:01pm
Are you using the European style to designate numbers, so it is one thousand, four hundred and five feet? If so:

[12(1405) + 1.5]/2 + 1 = ?

The first part gives the number of cuts, but the last cut has a slice on both sides.

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