George has a wooden board that is 3 1/4 feet long he needs to cut it into sections that are 3/4 foot long how many sections can he cut from this board
To find out how many sections George can cut from the board, we need to divide the length of the board by the length of each section.
To divide 3 1/4 by 3/4, we can convert both mixed numbers to improper fractions:
3 1/4 = (4*3 + 1)/4 = 13/4
3/4 = 3/4
Now we can divide 13/4 by 3/4:
(13/4) ÷ (3/4) = 13/4 * 4/3 = 13/3 ≈ 4.33
Therefore, George can cut approximately 4.33 sections from the board. Since we can't have partial sections, the maximum number of whole sections George can cut from the board is 4.