Samuel needs 233 feet of wood to build a fence. the wood comes in lengths of 11 feet. how many total pieces of wood will samuel need?

For this case, the first thing we must do is define variables:

x: total amount of wood feet

y: measure of each piece of wood in feet

n: total number of pieces of wood

We now write the equation that models the problem:

Substituting values:

Writing the amount for the next closest whole number we have:

Samuel will need 22 pieces of wood