Mr. Stanford wrote 65 pages of a travel brochure. He wants to divide it into 8 equal sections. How many pages will be in each section?
What is the answer as a mixed number?
What is the answer as a mixed number?
2 Answers
Is this question correct? I get
Explanation:
Treat as a ratio
65 pages for 8 equal sections.
Write the ratio in the format of a fraction.
But we need the number of pages for 1 section. So we need to change the 8 into 1.
For multiply or divide in ratios expressed as fractions what we do to the bottom we do to the top.
Divide top and bottom by 8 giving
Giving: each section will be
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Note that
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Suppose each section was to start on a new page
Then each section would end on the next 9th page with
This is a lot more than the given count of 65????
NO one will produce a brochure of 65 pages - it is simply not practical nor cost-effective.
Explanation:
In practical terms, no one would produce a brochure of 65 pages. A page has two sides, but as brochures are printed in booklet format, there are always 4 "pages" to a sheet of paper. Therefore any brochure has to be a multiple of 4 to avoid wasting, No one would produce a brochure with 3 totally blank page.
The obvious answer is
Also, even if there are only a few lines at the top of the last page, there will still be whole sheet of paper used.
The advice would be:
Condense the amount of some of the text to fit into