SOLUTION: Bob is building a deck that is 25 feet long, and he has posts that are 6 inches square to use to build the railing. If he puts the posts 3 feet apart with one on each end, how many
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Question 1182910: Bob is building a deck that is 25 feet long, and he has posts that are 6 inches square to use to build the railing. If he puts the posts 3 feet apart with one on each end, how many posts will he use? Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source):
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Bob is building a deck that is 25 feet long, and he has posts that are 6 inches square
to use to build the railing. If he puts the posts 3 feet apart with one on each end,
how many posts will he use?
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A TWIN problem was solved at this forum long time ago by tutor @josmiceli under this link
So, I copied that solution and changed the numbers in it, respectively.
Below is the updated solution.
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. ANSWER
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check:
OK
