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Math homework help, please?
Word problems are my weakness. Can someone help?
Suppose you had an 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch sheet of paper. How could you use that paper to measure a line segment 6 inches long?
Easy ten points! Please and thanks!
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Mark the line segment on the length and the width of the paper. Cut the paper at the mark to form a square and make sure that the waste paper is L shaped with the shortest width of 11-6 = 5 inches and height of 81/2-6 = 1 1/2 inch.