Problema Solution
pedro is building a spice rack with 4 shelves that are each 0.55 meter long. At the hardware store, pedro finds that he can only buy the shelving in whole meter lengths. Exactly how many meters of shelving does Pedro need? Since he can only buy whole number lengths, how many meters of shelving should he buy?
Answer provided by our tutors
he needs exactly 4*0.55 = 2.2 meters of shelving.
he should buy 4*1 = 4 meters of shelving.