Martin, a carpenter wants to make a spice rack for the kitchen. He cuts a 16.24 feet long plank into 5 pieces of equal length. What is the length of each piece of wood ? Round to the nearest hundredth.

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Solution

For this case we can solve the problem with the following operation:

[tex]\frac{16.24ft}{5}=3.248ft[/tex]

And rounded the answer we got 3.25 ft

16.24*100 = 1624

5*100 = 500

And we can do this:

1624/500 = 812/250 = 406/125

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125 / 406

-0

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-40

-0

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406

-375

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