SOLUTION: Your Supervisor sends you to a truck for 180 feet of electrical wire. When you get there you find that the coils of wire come in 15-foot lenghts. How many coils of wire will you ne

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Question 889964: Your Supervisor sends you to a truck for 180 feet of electrical wire. When you get there you find that the coils of wire come in 15-foot lenghts. How many coils of wire will you need to bring back? *
Answer by harpazo(655)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The total amount of wire in feet divided by the 15-foot lengths.
What is 180 divided by 15?
Can you finish?

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