Question

Jared is putting a new deck off the kitchen. The deck will be 94.95 inches deep. He will use 16 boards that are each 5.7 inches wide. He has to leave a small space between the boards. If the 15 spaces between the boards are all equal , how wide will they be?

Answer 1

$94.95-16*5.7\\94.95-91.2\\3.75\\\\\frac{3.75}{15}\\\frac{\frac{15}{4}}{15}\\\frac{15}{60}\\\frac{1}{4}\\0.25$

Total space is 3.75 inches. Each space is 0.25 inches.