we need to divide the 25 inch board by the 1.75 inch sections and you would get 14.2857 so, because they asked for the whole sections we only count the 14 and forget about the decimal places.
Yes I think so because she started at 2 1/4 then hiked to 4 3/8. That is roughly 2 miles and then from there she joked all the way back to 11/2? But I could be wrong?????