A carpenter needs 3 minutes to cut a board into 5 equal sections. If each cut takes the same length of time, at what rate is the carpenter cutting?

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Rose Downs

30 April, 02:12

A carpenter needs 3 minutes to cut a board into 5 equal sections. If each cut takes the same length of time, at what rate is the carpenter cutting?

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Morgan Gordon · Answer 1

he cuts 1.6 section of a board in one minute

Step-by-step explanation:

They're telling you that it takes 3 minutes for the carpenter to cut one board into 5 qual section. Therfore how many sections he's cutting in one minute divide the 5 by three. With that you will have the rate

Sullivan Villarreal · Answer 2

3/180 = 60 seconds = 1m/per cut or 60 sec/per cut.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is 3 cuts executed from a board to get 5 parts.