HELP ME WITH MATH

Question

Jeremy collected nickles for one week. He is making stacks of his nickles to determine how many he has. The thickness of one nickle is 1/16 inch.

What is the combines height of 3 nickles, 2 nickles, and 1 nickle?

Answer 1

Since each nickel has a height of 1/16 inch, then 3 of them will have a height of 3 times 1/16 or 3/16 inch.

The height of 2 nickels will be 2 times 1/16 or 2/16 inch.

The height of 1 nickel will still be 1/16 inch.

The sum of all the heights will be: 3/16 + 2/16 + 1/16 = 6/16 inch or 3/8 inch in simplest form.

You could also add the number of nickels and multiply by 1/16.

There are 6 total nickels and 6 times 1/16 = 6/16 or 3/8 inch