SOLUTION: your desk is 80 centimeters wide how many inches wide is your desk?

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Question 558202: your desk is 80 centimeters wide how many inches wide is your desk?
Found 2 solutions by richard1234, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by richard1234(7193)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Whoops, didn't see the "wide" and "wide" in the question...thought you were asking how long it was (in which we obviously can't determine it)...Sorry about that :)


Anyway, just convert 80 cm to inches:



Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The other tutor is being a smart-ass.  80cm is about right for a standard 
student desk in a classroom.  He should have known this problem was not
about a desk in an office.

To convert 80 centimeters to inches, we put 80cm over 1 like this:



and then we use the fact that 1in = 2.54cm to make the unit fraction
 to multiply that by.  We chose the unit fraction with
centimeters on the bottom so it would cancel with the centimeters in 
the top of .  Multiplying by that unit fraction:

×

Then we cancel the cm's:

×
 
And we have





And we divide 80 by 2.54 and get

31.49606299 inches

which you'd probably round off to 31.5 inches.

Edwin
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