SOLUTION: Bob is building a deck tha tis 32 feet long, and he has posts that are 6 inches square to use to build the railing. If he puts the posts 4 feet apart with one each end, how many po

Question 802321: Bob is building a deck tha tis 32 feet long, and he has posts that are 6 inches square to use to build the railing. If he puts the posts 4 feet apart with one each end, how many posts will he use?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is going to be 1 more post than the number of
spaces between posts. For example, if there were 10
spaces, there would be 11 posts
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Let = the number of ft spaces
= the number of posts
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Note that in = ft

He will use 8 posts
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check:

OK

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