Question

lucus cut a board that is 3 1/5 ft long and 3 1/3 ft wide.
What is the area of the board?

Answer 1

do you know how to change 3 1/5 to an "improper" fraction?

Answer 2

Okay can you turn 3 1/5 into a decimal?

Answer 3

Here is how you can do it!

Answer 4

I can a improper fraction but not a decimal16/5

Answer 5

do you know what 1/5 is as a decimal
think about quarters

Answer 6

Is this another word problem?

Answer 7

Okay so it will be easier to to make it a decimal

Answer 8

its not .5 that would be 2/5 what is 1/5

Answer 9

remember 5 go by 25s to go to 100

Answer 10

you can try to do the same for 1/3

Answer 11

Ill tell you that 1/3 is a repeating decimal