A carpenter needs to make 60 dowels each dowel must be 6 inches long the wood from which the carpenter will cut the dowel comes in 4-foot lengths. What is the length of wood the carpenter can buy and still make all 60 dowels
wow - 2 minutes and no answer! Impatient much?
assuming negligible waste, each 4-ft length of wood can make 8 dowels
60/8 = 7.5, so he must buy 8 4-ft sticks.
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To find the length of wood the carpenter can buy, we need to consider the dimensions and requirements of the dowels.
Given:
- The carpenter needs to make 60 dowels.
- Each dowel must be 6 inches long.
- The wood comes in 4-foot lengths.
First, let's convert the length of the dowel from inches to feet:
Since there are 12 inches in a foot, the length of each dowel is 6 inches / 12 inches/foot = 0.5 feet.
Next, let's find the total length of wood required for all 60 dowels:
60 dowels * 0.5 feet/dowel = 30 feet.
Now, let's calculate the number of 4-foot lengths of wood the carpenter needs to buy:
Total length of wood required / Length of each piece of wood = 30 feet / 4 feet/length = 7.5 lengths.
Since the carpenter cannot buy a fraction of a length, they should round up to the nearest whole number. Therefore, the carpenter needs to buy at least 8 lengths of 4-foot wood to make all 60 dowels.
So, the length of wood the carpenter can buy and still make all 60 dowels is 8 lengths * 4 feet/length = 32 feet.