A customer wanted 24 feet of rope. The clerk at the hardware store used what she thought was a yardstick to measure the rope. But the yardstick was acutally 2 inches too short. How many inches were missing from the customers piece of rope?

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anonymous · Answer

I am not the customer.

campbell_st · Answer

24ft = 8 yds..... so 8 x 2 = 16  so 16 inches short..

anonymous · Answer

1 yard = 36 inches = 3 feet.
She would have measured 8 yards to get 24 feet.
Can you work it out from there?
Now if Americans would just adopt the metric system, this problem would never happen :-P

anonymous · Answer

lol @FSM