Question

A wood pole is 12 metres long and is cut into 5 equal sections. If each cut wastes 10 cm of pole, what length would each section be?

Answer 1

Total length of the wooden pole = 12 meters

And each cut wastes 10 cm of pole . So 5 cut wastes 10*5=50 cm .

So remaining wood is

$12m -50cm = 12m -0.5 cm = 11.5cm$

Let each section be of length x meters .

And there are 5 sections

$5x=11.5 \\ x= 2.3 m$

So each section is of length 2.3 meters .