At a road race, you have 60 3/4 feet available for a water station. Your tables are 6 3/4 feet long. How many tables can you line up.

Question

Math problem

Answer 1

One way to solve: divide 60.75 by 6.75 and discard the remainder to get integer # of tables that will fit in the allocated linear space.

 

Of course, you could get more tables if their widths were used (assuming width<length).