Question

If a pier is 200 meters long and each board is 80 centimeters wide, how many boards are in the pier?

Answer 1

Well we know that 1 meter = 100 centimeters

so 80cm = 0.80m

so now that we now how many meters are the boards we could divide;

200 ÷ 0.80 = 250

Your final answer is;

250 boards

Answer 2

250. 100 CM in 1 Meter. That leaves you with with .8 meters a board, 200/ .8 leaves you with 250