Question

A carpenter needs to make 60 dowels each dowel must be 6 inches long the wood from which the carpenter will cut the dowel comes in 4-foot lengths. What is the length of wood the carpenter can buy and still make all 60 dowels

Answer 1

Hello? Can any one help me?

Answer 2

wow - 2 minutes and no answer! Impatient much?
assuming negligible waste, each 4-ft length of wood can make 8 dowels
60/8 = 7.5, so he must buy 8 4-ft sticks.

Answer 3

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