A piece plywood 24 inches wide is cut into strips 2 and a half inches wide, how many strips of this with can be cut. Please help,7th grade.
how many times does 2.5 go into 24?
24/2.5 = 24 / (5/2) = 24 * 2/5 = 48/5 = 9 3/5
so, 9 strips plus some left over
To find out how many strips can be cut from the plywood, you need to divide the width of the plywood by the width of each strip.
Width of plywood = 24 inches
Width of each strip = 2.5 inches
To divide 24 inches by 2.5 inches, we can perform the following calculation:
24 ÷ 2.5 = 9.6
Therefore, you can cut approximately 9.6 strips from the plywood. Since you cannot have a fraction of a strip, the answer is rounded down to the nearest whole number.
Therefore, you can cut a total of 9 strips from the plywood.
To determine the number of strips that can be cut from a piece of plywood, we need to divide the width of the plywood by the width of each strip.
In this case, the width of the plywood is 24 inches, and each strip is 2 and a half inches wide.
Dividing 24 by 2.5 gives us:
24 ÷ 2.5 = 9.6
Since we cannot have a fraction of a strip, we need to round down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, 9 strips can be cut from the plywood.