Question

A stencil of Pennsylvania Dutch designs consists of a tulip, a wheel of fortune, a pomegranate, a bird, and a heart. Each figure on the stencil is 4 centimeters wide. You are decorating a day care center and you wish to stencil the designs near the top edge in a wall of a hallway that measures 1468 centimeters long. If you stencil the figures in the order indicated until you run out of room, what will be the last figure you stencil

Answer 1

1468 / (3*4) = 347/3 = 115*3 + 2
look at the remainder
second figure..

Answer 2

347/3?, 6?

Answer 3

I did 1468/24=61 the 61x24=1464+4=1468

Answer 4

oh right..
367/3 = 122*3+1
so second one..

+2 mean, third one

0 means, the first one

Answer 5

so 3

Answer 6

no, the bird...

Answer 7

wouldn't the bird be remainder 4?

Answer 8

how can you have the remainder 4 when you are dividin gby 3!

Answer 9

remainder will always be less than the divisor

Answer 10

I'm just not sure how you getting the bird?

Answer 11

oh k.. isee the confusion
when it is a perfect ratio, it ended with the third one -> remainder (0)
when remainder = 1 -> ends with 1st one
remainder 2, ends with 2nd one

Answer 12

cannot get remainder 3 or more

Answer 13

So it's wrong if you divide 1468 by 20 and get a remainder 4. 4 being the fourth design?

Answer 14

I mean bird being the 4th design

Answer 15

oh.. wait....
there are "5" art pieces.. i took as 3

Answer 16

yes

Answer 17

right...
so, here goes again..
1468/(5*4) = 367/5 = 73*5 + 2