a carpenter is cutting dowels from a piece of wood that is 10 inches long. how many 1/2 inch dowels can the carpenter cut?
20. You take 10×2 because the 2 is equal to the 1/2. When you multiply them both you get on answer of 20.
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Its 20
10 / (1/2)
10 * (2/1) = 20
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To find out how many 1/2 inch dowels the carpenter can cut from a 10-inch piece of wood, we need to divide the total length of the wood by the length of each dowel.
In this case, the total length of the wood is 10 inches and the length of each dowel is 1/2 inch.
To divide a whole number by a fraction, we can multiply the whole number by the reciprocal of the fraction. The reciprocal of 1/2 is 2/1.
So, we need to multiply 10 by 2/1:
10 * 2/1 = 20/1
The result is 20/1, which means the carpenter can cut 20 one-half inch dowels from a 10-inch piece of wood.