Asidewalk is built 12 bricks wide by laying each brick side by side. how many inches wide is the sidewalk if each brick meaaures 3 3/8 inches wide?

A sidewalk is built 12 bricks wide by laying each brick side by side.

The size of each brick measures

Convert the mixed fraction into improper fraction

The width of each brick is

To built side walk, 12 bricks are used

To find the width of side walk , we multiply the number of bricks with the width of each brick

We can cancel out 12  and 8

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step-by-step explanation:

so, converting firstly the mixed fractions to improper fractions and then "adding".