SOLUTION: THe platform on the school stage is 8 3/4 feet wide. Each chair is 1 5/12 ft wide. How many chairs will fit across the platform?

Question 237447: THe platform on the school stage is 8 3/4 feet wide. Each chair is 1 5/12 ft wide. How many chairs will fit across the platform?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

likewise,

Divide the measure of the available space by the measure of each thing to be fit into it.

which will come out to something with an ugly decimal fraction. Unless you intend to saw off 3/17ths of a chair so that they fit exactly, you can just drop the decimal fraction and report your answer as the integer part of the above calculation.

John

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