A single board is 1/12 meter thick. How many boards are there in a stack of boards that is 2 meters high?

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Guest Mar 10, 2015

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$${\frac{{\mathtt{2}}}{\left({\frac{{\mathtt{1}}}{{\mathtt{12}}}}\right)}} = {\mathtt{24}}$$

You can visualize this by determining that since 1 board is 1/12 of a meter, then it takes 12 boards to make a meter.

You have 2 meters, therefore you have twice as many.

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Guest · Answer 1 · 2015-03-10T07:03:56

$${\frac{{\mathtt{2}}}{\left({\frac{{\mathtt{1}}}{{\mathtt{12}}}}\right)}} = {\mathtt{24}}$$

You can visualize this by determining that since 1 board is 1/12 of a meter, then it takes 12 boards to make a meter.

You have 2 meters, therefore you have twice as many.