Originally Posted by DAD22
I wonder how many kids did the calculation you explained to arrive at 3, and how many checked to see whether or not you could actually cut 8 10" pieces and 8 8" pieces from 3 48" rods. It turns out you can (if you ignore losses due to the width of your saw blade and sanding... which would require you to use 4 rods in the real world). At least the question authors got that much right.
I was curious, and did it too-- 10 10 10 10 8, 10 10 10 10 8, 8 8 8 8 8 8. And I had the same thought about widths of the cuts. laugh

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