Deck 20: Working With Feet and Inches

Question 1

What is the perimeter of a room 12 feet 8 inches wide and 18 feet 2 inches long?

Answer 1

61 feet 8 inches

Question 2

Express 155 1/2 inches as feet and inches.

Answer 2

12 feet 11 1/2 inches

Question 3

How much would have to be cut from the end of a 12-foot piece of lumber to leave a piece 4 feet 9 inches long?

Answer 3

7 feet 3 inches

Question 4

If 5 1/2 inches are cut off one end of a 9-foot length of lumber, what length remains?

Question 5

Dimensions expressed in combined feet and inches can usually be added by simply adding the feet, adding the inches separately, and then expressing the inches as a combined value of feet and inches.

Question 6

If a girder is placed in the center of a 26-foot 2-inch span, what is the dimension from one end of the span to the centerline of the girder?

Question 7

Express 5 feet 5 inches in inches.

Question 8

Express 31 inches as feet and inches.

Question 9

For more complex problems, it is often easier to express all dimensions in inches.

Question 10

Express 7 feet 5 3/4 inches as inches.