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A book shelf is 3 1/2 feet long. Each book on the shelf is 5/8 wide. How many books will fit on the shelf?

I don't know how to turn fractions into feet. Help please

Change the fractions into decimals...

3 1/2= 3.5

5/8, divide 8 into 5=0.625

Changing them to decimals makes the process a lot easier

Thank you

thank you so much😇

wait but how did you get 42 from 3 1/2?🤔

I'm so confused 😭X_X

yall calm down im about to shikumaru up in here . there are 3542 books of the same thickness right the room has 321 shelves for most people u just divide but for me ilike to think of it like this. u have to distract the 42 out of 3542 then use ur 35 as a niographic meter to the number of 321 ur answer would be 11 r 30

To solve this problem, you need to convert the measurements to the same unit. In this case, you have the length of the bookshelf given in feet and the width of each book given as a fraction. To convert the fraction to feet, you need to multiply it by the length of one foot.

To convert the fraction 5/8 into feet, you multiply it by 1 foot. Since 1 foot is equivalent to 12 inches, you can use this conversion to convert the fraction into feet:

(5/8) * (12 inches / 1 foot) = 60/8 inches (or 7.5 inches)

Now we have the width of each book as 7.5 inches. To find out how many books will fit on the shelf, you need to divide the length of the bookshelf by the width of each book.

The length of the bookshelf is given as 3 1/2 feet. To convert this to inches, you multiply it by 12 inches per foot:

(3 1/2 feet) * (12 inches / 1 foot) = 42 inches

Now we have the length of the bookshelf as 42 inches. To calculate the number of books that will fit, you divide the length of the bookshelf by the width of each book:

42 inches / 7.5 inches = 5.6

Since you cannot have a fraction of a book, you should round down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, you can fit 5 books on the shelf.

No units were given for the 5/8

a book 5/8 of a foot wide is not very logical, so were the books only 5/8 inches?
pretty skinny books.

anyway

3 1/2 ft = 42 inches
number of books
= 42 ÷ 5/8
= 42(8/5) = 67.2 books ???

was expecting a whole number.
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