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Carpenter’s World

Solve each problem. Name ______________________

1. Shirley and her dad are building a new doghouse. They have several boards that they want to stack in order from shortest to longest. The lengths of the boards are 14 inches, 27 inches, 19 inches, 34 inches, 30 inches, and 21 inches. Write the lengths in order from shortest to longest.

2. Julia is fencing in her backyard. She needs 240 feet of fencing. The roll that she is looking at has 85 yards of fencing. Is the roll long enough to provide Julia with all the fencing she will need?

3. Chuck is cutting a board that is 6 feet long into two pieces. One piece will be two and one-half feet and the other piece will be two feet, fi ve inches.

Which one is longer?

4. Jay has three pieces of wire rolled up and labeled with their lengths. The lengths are 75 feet, 84 feet, and 29 feet. His dad wants the longest one fi rst, followed by the medium length one, and then the shortest one. In what order should Jay hand these to his dad?

5. Ian and Brandon are collecting boards to make a fort in their backyard.

The lengths of the boards they collected are 29 inches, 25 inches, 28.6 inches, 25.75 inches, 28.5 inches, 28 inches, and 29.5 inches.

Help Ian and Brandon list these boards in order from the longest to the shortest length.