document.write( "Question 980078: if i had a wall 8 3/4 feet and wanted to put 3 paintings of equal size on it with equal gaps in between how bug would they be? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "To place three paintings of equal width on a wall with
\n" ); document.write( "equal gaps between each painting and equal spaces on
\n" ); document.write( "each end (between the other walls and end paintings):
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\n" ); document.write( "To get available space for gaps, we subtract total of painting
\n" ); document.write( "widths from total wall length. Since there are a total of
\n" ); document.write( "four gaps, (one at each end and two between paintings),
\n" ); document.write( "we divide by 4 to find length of each gap.
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\n" ); document.write( "Let L=length of wall; W=width of painting; G=gap
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\n" ); document.write( "G=(L-3W)/4 \n" ); document.write( "

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