How many boards do you need?!


Question: You are building a fence that measures 4 meters long by 4 meters wide by 1 meter high. To build the fence you are given boards that measure 1 meter by 0.25 meters. If each fence post must be 1 meter apart, how many boards will it take to build the enclosure?


Answers: You are building a fence that measures 4 meters long by 4 meters wide by 1 meter high. To build the fence you are given boards that measure 1 meter by 0.25 meters. If each fence post must be 1 meter apart, how many boards will it take to build the enclosure?

0. cos its supposed to be a fence, not enclosure... play of words, but somehow, politically, correct...

64 boards! :) (I'm 6 years old and my sister taught me that it doesn't matter if your wrong, but if you put effort in what your doing. And I did try hard to answer your question.

64

Each side of the enclosure is four meters long so you need 4 boards right there. To build it to the height you need, you will need another four boards (0.25*4=1 meter). Sixteen boards for one side. HOWEVER!!!!! You need boards for all four sides and you have only accounted for the first of the four. So multiply your 16 boards by 4 to get the total number needed -- 64!!!!! THE SIX YEAR OLD WAS CORRECT! CALL HARVARD! CALL YALE!!!!!



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