Question

[challenge] you are hoping to receive a scholarship for volleyball and are entering your personal information and statistics on a secure website to be reviewed by recruiters. the website requires that you report your height in feet and inches to the nearest ? inch. you have a decimal tape measure and find that you are 5.89 feet tall. what height measurement will you report in order to honestly and accurately report your height?

Answer 1

Answer:

5ft 11in

Step-by-step explanation:

We know that 1 feet is equivalent to 12 inches ⇒

$1ft=12inches$ (I)

We need to convert the measure 5.89 feet.

5.89 feet is equivalent to 5 feet + 0.89 feet

We need to convert the remaining 0.89 feet into inches.

Using the equivalence (I) :

$\frac{1feet}{12inches}=\frac{0.89feet}{x}$

$x=\frac{(0.89feet).(12inches)}{1feet}=10.68inches$ ≅ 11 inches

We can write that

5.89 feet = 5 feet + 0.89 feet = 5 feet + 11 inches ⇒

5.89 feet = 5ft 11in

Answer 2

Height without rounding - 5.89

5.89

Rounded - 5.9 feet tall