Question

If you have 24 square pieces of wood, describe all the different ways you could make a rectangle by placing them side by side

Answer 1

 

You have 24 square pieces of wood. You could lay them out in the following fashion. First number is the number of rows. Second number is the number of columns. For example:

1,24 is 1 row by 24 columns. Here goes:

1,24

2,12

3,8

4,6

6,4

8,3

12,2

24,1

i believe that's all.

It winds up being the number of ways you can multiply two integers to get 24.