Joe has 21 pounds of clay. He needs 5 1/4 pounds of clay to make one piece of pottery. How many pieces of pottery can he make?
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You want to be finding out what two factors (where one of them is a perfect square) has the produce of 63. It seems like 9 x 7 (9 is the perfect square) works.
The square root of 9 is 3 so we can just have
(which just means 3 times the square root of 7).
The square root of 9 is 3 so we can just have