Answer the questions and show all your work on separate paper.
Reema wants to build a coat rack for the front hallway. The wall is
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4 feet long, and the piece of wood she has for the rack is 28
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inches long. She wants to center the coat rack on the wall. There
Draw a detailed
needs to be an equal amount of space, about 7 or 8 inches,
diagram?
between the coat hooks. The first and last hooks should be no
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calculations?
less than 1 inches from either end of the wood. How many
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hooks should Reema use? What is the distance between the
of the problem?
hooks? What is the distance of each hook from the left edge of
the wood?
Draw and label a diagram of the coat rack on the wall. Mark all the measurements for
placing the wood on the wall, and for attaching the hooks on the wood. You can use
either fractions or decimals to label and calculate the measurements
Reflect
Reflect on Mathematical Practices After you complete the task, choose one of
the following questions to answer.
• Model What models helped you to solve this problem? How did they help?
• Be Precise When was it easier to use fractions, and when was it easier to work with
decimal numbers?