Tim the tool man wants to build a bookshelf. It has three horizontal lengths, each 32 3 feet, and two vertical lengths each 25 8 feet. What is the total amount of wood necessary to build the shelves?

I am thinking these number have decimals.

To answer this question you will add the sizes of the pieces needed to make the bookshelf.

If you are adding the same number you may show it as a multiplication problem.

32.3 x 3 + 25.8 x 2

96.9 + 51.6

147.5 feet of wood

Or

32.3 + 32.3 + 32.3 + 25.8 + 25.8