SOLUTION: If I put up a link fence along the highway,and for every 5feet of fencing I need to put up a post to hold up the fence. If I put up 50 feet of fence, will I need a total of 11 fenc

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Question 987188: If I put up a link fence along the highway,and for every 5feet of fencing I need to put up a post to hold up the fence. If I put up 50 feet of fence, will I need a total of 11 fence posts?
Found 3 solutions by Alan3354, Cromlix, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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If I put up a link fence along the highway,and for every 5feet of fencing I need too put up a post to hold up the fence. If I put up 50 feet of fence, will I need a total of 11 fence posts?
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Yes, 11 will do it.

Answer by Cromlix(4381) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hi there,
Yes, you will need 11 posts
as you put one in at the beginning.
Hope this helps :-)

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055) About Me  (Show Source):
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Count them and see. The circles represent the fence posts
are there are 10 spans of 5' totaling 50'. 

o----o----o----o----o----o----o----o----o----o----o
  5'   5'   5'   5'   5'   5'   5'   5'   5'   5'

Edwin