The thickness of 1 nickel is 1/16 inch. How tall is a stack of 16 nickels?

Question

Jeremy collected nickels for one week.  He is making stacks of his nickels to fret ermine how many he has. The thickness of one nickel  is 1/16 inch.

Answer 1

Hi Candy;

1 nickel...1/16 inches

16 nickels...[(1/16) inches](16)

[(1/16) inches](16/1)

I added the /1 to illustrate my next point.

The number 16 is in the numerator and denominator.  It cancels...

[(1/16) inches](16/1)

(1/1) inches

1 inch