From the question, we are informed that Jared needs to drill holes 2 1/4 inches apart in a 36 inch section of his garage. The expression that he can use to figure out the number of holes he will need to drill will be:
= 36 ÷ 2 1/4
From the expression we can then calculate the number of hours to drill. This will be:
You don't provide the original side length, but since the scale factor is greater than 1, all correct answers are lengths that are greater than the original side length.
Answer: choose any two numbers that are greater than the original length.
