Question

tamara and her mother plan to put a stone path and their garden each stone is 2/3 foot long they plan to use 7 stones that will be touching how long is the path write an equation to solve a problem explain your reasoning

Answer 1

its 4.50 because if you divide it will be 4 and 2 then with the 2 over 4 it is 4.5

Answer 2

Ok, so each stone is 2/3 ft long and there are 7 of them.  If we let path = P, then...

P = 2/3 x 7
P = 2/3 x 7/1
P = 14/3
P = 4 2/3 ft

So the path will be 4 2/3 ft long.