First turn 1/2 to 2/4 so you have a common denominator. Next turn the mixed numbers into improper fractions: 11 3/4 --> 47/4 and 8 2/4 --> 34/4 Subtract: 47/4 - 34/4 = 13/4 Divide: 13/4 = 3.25 3.25/2 --> 1.625 or 1 5/8 Therefore, he will have to place it 1 5/8 feet from each side
It would be an odd number of teams. What I did was add 43 and 34 together. Which gave me 77. So 77 people total wanted to race. There can only be 8 racers on each team. Each means to divide. So I divided 8 and 77. It gave me 9 with a remainder of 5. So there will e 9 teams and 5 racers left out. (:
