a contractor's designing one side of an office building 48 feet in length the windows are each 5 feet long and will be placed Six feet apart and 5 feet from the end of the building wall how many windows can a contractor design
You really have 38 feet to work with because of the five on each end.
each window-space unit takes 11 feat
3 of them take up 33 feet
now we can put one last window from 33 to 38
so
4 windows.
let xxxxx be five feet, and lllll be a five feet window, and xxxxxx six feet.
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How many windows is that?
Thanks!
To determine the number of windows that can be designed in this scenario, we need to calculate the available space between the windows.
Given:
- Length of the building side: 48 feet
- Window length: 5 feet
- Distance between windows: 6 feet
- Distance from the end of the building wall to the first window: 5 feet
To find the number of windows, we can subtract the distances (window length and spaces) from the total length of the building side and then divide it by the sum of the window length and the distance between windows.
Let's calculate:
Total available space for windows: 48 feet - (5 feet + 5 feet) = 38 feet
Total space occupied by each window and the gap between them: 5 feet + 6 feet = 11 feet
Number of windows that can be designed: 38 feet ÷ 11 feet ≈ 3.45
Since it is not possible to have a fraction of a window, the contractor can design a maximum of 3 windows on the 48-foot side of the office building.