Question

The pitch of a screw is the distance between it's threads.with each complete rotation, the screw goes in or out a distance equal to it's pitch, after 8 complete rotation, the screw is extended 4/15 inch into the wallboard. find the pitch of the screw.

Answer 1

This is similar to the last problem
Since 4/15ths is equal to 8 * the pitch you need to divide by 8/1