The length of a metal rod is 9 3/4 feet. What is the length of 1/4 the rod?
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: \(2\frac{7}{16}\)
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