Question

The length of a metal rod is 9 3/4 feet. What is the length of 1/4 the rod?

Answer 1

I think it would be 3 1/4 ft.

Answer 2

The length of $\frac{1}{4}$ is $2 \frac{7}{16}$ feet.

To figure this out all we have to do is change $9\frac{3}{4}$ to a decimal, which would be 9.75. Since we are looking for $\frac{1}{4}$ of our original number, we can just divide it by 4 to find our answer.

In decimal form we get 2.4375, which is equal to 

$2\frac{7}{16}$ in mixed number form or 

$\frac{39}{16}$ in exact form.

Although I think the answer you are looking for is in mixed number form: $2\frac{7}{16}$

Thank you for the question! I hope this helped! Have an amazing day :D