A builder uses 32 wooden slats to make 4 fence panels. Fatima wants to know how many slats are needed for 1 panel. Gerard wants to know how many slats he will need to make 8 panels. Drag an expression to answer each question.

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Lily West

15 August, 21:20

A builder uses 32 wooden slats to make 4 fence panels. Fatima wants to know how many slats are needed for 1 panel. Gerard wants to know how many slats he will need to make 8 panels. Drag an expression to answer each question.

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Patience Ross · Answer 1

An expression that can be used to answer both questions is: 8x, where 'x' represents the number of panels.

Step-by-step explanation:

If a builder uses 32 wooden slats to make 4 fence panels, then we would divide 32/4 to get 8 slats per panel. In order for anyone to find the total number of slats they would need for the number of panels they want, they can assign a variable, such as 'x' to represent the number of panels. Since we know we need 8 slats per panel, our expression can be 8x, where 'x' is the number of panels. So, if Fatima wants 1 panel, she would substitute 1 for 'x' and get 8 x 1 = 8. If Gerard wants 8 panels, he would subsitute 8 for 'x' and get 8 x 8 = 64.