Acarpenter has 10 1/2 feet of wooden plank. he cuts off 4 1/4 feet to replace the slat of a deck and 3 2/3 to repair a bannister. he uses the rest to fix a stair. how many feet of wood does the carpenter use to fix the stair?
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The carpenter needs feet of wooden plank to fix the stairs.

Given:

Total wooden of plank is feet

He then cut feet for the slat of a deck

                    feet for repairing a Bannister

and the rest for fixing the stairs

Question:

How many feet of wood does the carpenter use to fix the stair?

The rest to fix the stairs = Total wooden of plank - wooden of plank use for the slat of a deck - wooden of plank use for repairing a Bannister.

the denominator is different, so we need to find a common denominator for 2, 4 and 3 which is 12, so :

we can write the above equation as follow

we can break up 10 into two smaller numbers

So, the wooden plank use for fixing the stairs is feet.

Part to whole relationship

Mixed fraction (part to whole relationship)

Mixed fraction

Keyword: mixed fraction, subtraction, improper fraction, part to whole relationship, grouping, mixed fraction additional

false

step-by-step explanation:

the reason i say this is because for a certain length of sides you can pick any two and the length is wither equal or greater than the third side and in this case it's not.

3 + 5 = 8

8 is smaller than 9 which is the third side.

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