Adam is building birdhouses that require 1/2 -ft- long boards. how many pieces that are exactly 1/2 ft long can be made from a board that is 8 1/4 ft long? show your work

16

Step-by-step explanation:

Adam is building birdhouses that require feet long exactly.

Now, we have a board of feet.

Now, we can write 8.25 = (16 × 0.5) + 0.25

Therefore, there can be a total 16 pieces that exactly 0.5 feet long can be made from the board that is 8.25 feet long and the remaining board will be of 0.25 feet. (Answer)

a.

step-by-step explanation:

step 1 distribute 2 to every term in the parentheses

step 2 add 10 on both sides of the equal sign