Please help Ms.Sue! a contractor's designing one side of an office building 48 feet in length the windows are each 5 feet long and will be placed Six feet apart and 5 feet from the end of the building wall how many windows can a contractor design
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To determine how many windows a contractor can design, we first need to calculate the available space for the windows on the 48-foot length of the building.
We know that each window is 5 feet long and they are placed 6 feet apart. Additionally, each window is 5 feet away from the end of the building wall.
So, let's calculate the total space occupied by windows:
Each window is 5 feet long, and there is a 6-foot gap between each window. Therefore, we need to consider one window along with its gap, which has a total length of 5 + 6 = 11 feet.
However, we need to remember that each window is also 5 feet away from the end wall. Therefore, we need to subtract 5 feet from each end.
To calculate the available space for windows, we subtract the two 5-foot gaps from the total length of the building:
48 feet - 5 feet - 5 feet = 38 feet.
Now, we can divide the available space (38 feet) by the total length of a window plus its gap (11 feet) to determine how many windows can be designed:
38 feet ÷ 11 feet = approximately 3.45.
Since we cannot have a fraction of a window, we need to round this number down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, a contractor can design a maximum of 3 windows on one side of the office building.