A carpenter has a board that is 10 feet long. He wants to make 6 table legs that are all the same length. What is the longest each leg can be?
10/6 = 1 2/3
2/3 of 12 is 8
so 1 foot and 8 inches
To find the longest length that each table leg can be, we need to divide the length of the board by the number of legs. In this case, the board is 10 feet long and the carpenter wants to make 6 table legs.
To find the length of each leg, we divide the total length of the board by the number of legs:
10 feet / 6 legs = 1.67 feet per leg (rounded to two decimal places)
Therefore, the longest each table leg can be is approximately 1.67 feet long.