Laura wants to cut a board into three equal pieces. The board is 5-8 feet long. How long will each piece be?
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The answer is 19 or 19 1/5 because 12/1 / 5/8= 12/1* 8/5= 96?5= 19 or 19 1/5
If something is 18 feet long and you want to cut it into three equal parts how many inches is each part
Laura wants to cut a board
into three equal pieces. The board is
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5
8
! feet long. How long will each piece
To find the length of each piece when the board is divided into three equal parts, you need to divide the total length of the board by three.
In this case, the board is 5-8 feet long. To perform the division, convert the mixed number 5-8 into an improper fraction.
To convert 5-8 into an improper fraction, multiply the whole number (5) by the denominator (8) and add it to the numerator (8). This will give you the numerator for the improper fraction. The denominator remains the same.
So, 5-8 can be converted to an improper fraction as follows:
(5 * 8 + 8) / 8 = 48/8 + 8/8 = 56/8
Now, you can divide 56/8 by 3 to find the length of each piece.
Dividing a fraction by a whole number is equivalent to multiplying the fraction by the reciprocal of the whole number.
Therefore, divide 56/8 by 3 by multiplying it by 1/3:
(56/8) * (1/3) = 56 * 1 / 8 * 3 = 56/24 = 7/3
So, each piece will be 7/3 feet long, which is equivalent to 2 and 1/3 feet long.