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All right a c t math drillers here Let's keep

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going Woof gang wolfgang as they say in american wants

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to paint an eight by eight pattern of equal squares

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on a square board to create his own chess board

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One side of the board measures one and a quarter

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feet long Assuming that roof gang's pattern will take up

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the entire surface area of the port what will the

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side length of each individual square b in feet Huh

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All right Well since chess is a game of release

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slow deliberation Well we have some time to make a

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joke now before we make our next move against the

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the expire How do you move your king back through

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time Easy Move him to before Never mind if a

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chessboard contains an eight by eight pattern of squares Well

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that means that there are eight squares along each side

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of the board See One two three four seven eight

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We want the side length of one square and were

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given the total side length of the board Right So

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divide the total length of the board that's one and

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a quarter feet by eight to find the side length

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of each square Well to make this calculation easier let's

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change one and a quarter from being a mixed number

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Two The equivalent improper fraction of five force and things

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improper are so common here in months Dividing a number

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is the same thing as multiple invites reciprocal So dividing

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five force by eight which is really ate over one

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is the same thing as multiplying five force by one

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eighth Well when we do that we get five times

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one is five and four times eight is thirty two

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so that's five over thirty To answer is c checkmate

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