a shipment of steel pipe contains 2.058' (625 m). if each pipe is 21' (640 cm.) long, how many lengths are in this shipment?

Question

Can you please show me how to work this problem? 

Answer 1

The formula to solve this problem is Number of units = Total length ÷ unit length

 

first, we convert 640cm to meters, by dividing 100cm/m into 640cm = 6.4m

 

Then #units = 625m ÷ 6.4m

# of units ≅ 98

 

We can also solve this problem using the English measurements.

First, 2058feet ÷ 21 feet/unit = 98 units