No it is not! To get the correct answer, we must use a common unit. Let's use inches, since our sections are each 8 inches long. How many inches is the board? Well, there are 12 inches in a foot, so we take 9.5 feet and multiply it by 12 inches/foot. We get that the board is 114 inches long. Now divide that by 8 inches/section and we get 14.25 sections. So the answer is 15 sections: 14 8-inch sections and 1 2-inch section.
