Libby needs to cut pieces of oak molding that are 3/4 yard long. She has 2 yards of oak molding. How many pieces can she cut? How much molding will be left over?

Answer 1

Let's start by converting the fraction 3/4 into its decimal form, 0.75.

We can figure out how many pieces of wood that are 0.75 yards long can be cut from a two-yard plank this way:

2 / 0.75 = 2 (remainder 0.5)

Libby can cut two pieces of the desired length from the two-yard long plank of wood. She will have 0.5 yard leftover.