QuestionA customer wants pieces of ' roundstock from a piece. How many can you provide, considering waste?
Studdy Solution
STEP 1
Assumptions1. The length of the roundstock on hand is
. The length of each piece required by the customer is
3. There is a kerf waste of for each cut
STEP 2
First, we need to convert the length of each piece required by the customer from fractional inches to decimal inches.
STEP 3
Next, we need to account for the kerf waste for each cut. Since each cut results in a waste of , the total length of each piece including the waste is the sum of the length of each piece and the kerf waste.
STEP 4
Plug in the values for the length of each piece and the kerf waste to calculate the total length of each piece.
STEP 5
Convert the kerf waste from fractional inches to decimal inches.
STEP 6
Calculate the total length of each piece.
STEP 7
Now that we have the total length of each piece, we can find out how many such pieces we can get from the roundstock. This can be done by dividing the length of the roundstock by the total length of each piece.
STEP 8
Plug in the values for the length of the roundstock and the total length of each piece to calculate the number of pieces.
STEP 9
Calculate the number of pieces. Since we cannot deliver a fraction of a piece, we take the floor of the result.
You can deliver3 pieces of roundstock.
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