Mitch is cutting wood to make a garden marker each garden marker changes the length of the piece of wood by - 0.8 foot the length of the wood changes by a total of - 4 for over five feet after mitch cuts all the garden markers how many pieces of wood did mitch cut?

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Jane Erickson

Mathematics

11 July, 11:50

Mitch is cutting wood to make a garden marker each garden marker changes the length of the piece of wood by - 0.8 foot the length of the wood changes by a total of - 4 for over five feet after mitch cuts all the garden markers how many pieces of wood did mitch cut?

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Trystan Koch · Answer 1

Hello there.

Mitch is cutting wood to make a garden marker each garden marker changes the length of the piece of wood by - 0.8 foot the length of the wood changes by a total of - 4 for over five feet after mitch cuts all the garden markers how many pieces of wood did mitch cut?

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Codi · Answer 2

Here are the given information from the problem:

a garden marker that changes the length of the piece of wood by - 0.8 foot and

a total of - 4/5 feet change in the length of the wood

We simply have to divide the total change in the length of wood by the change in wood per marker. So,

-4/5 / - 0.8 = 1

There was only 1 piece of wood that Mitch cut.