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Question 256667: Please help me solve this problem. Mr Wallace measured the length of a board that he was going to cut into 16 equal parts. If each part had to be less than 4 inches long, how long could the board be?
Thank you Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Please help me solve this problem. Mr Wallace measured the length of a board that he was going to cut into 16 equal parts. If each part had to be less than 4 inches long, how long could the board be?
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Let the length of the board be "b":
0 < b < 16*4
0 < b < 64
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Cheers,
Stan H.